December 10, 2009
MIAHUATLÁN, Mexico — During the best of the times, Miguel Salcedo’s son, an illegal immigrant in San Diego, would be sending home hundreds of dollars a month to support his struggling family in Mexico. But at times like these, with the American economy out of whack and his son out of work, Mr. Salcedo finds himself doing what he never imagined he would have to do: wiring pesos north.
Unemployment has hit migrant communities in the United States so hard that a startling new phenomenon has been detected: instead of receiving remittances from relatives in the richest country on earth, some down-and-out Mexican families are scraping together what they can to support their unemployed loved ones in the United States.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/world/americas/16mexico.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=americas
December 7, 2009
`El Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos ha estimado que 800 mil hombres, mujeres y niños son traficados alrededor del mundo cada año.
Y muchas de estas víctimas de esclavitud de los días modernos pasan por el Valle del Río Grande, dijo un vocero de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE por sus siglas en inglés)…`
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http://www.elnuevoheraldo.com/articles/mil-40302-estimado-mujeres.html