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U.S. economic slowdown likely to bring Mexican workers north
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| Last Edited | Ashley Apr 19, 2008 06:40am |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Friday, April 18, 2008 10:45:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | TEZIUTLAN, Mexico — As the U.S. economy heads south, Mexicans may have to head north.
That's the fear of many workers here, where the slowdown in the United States already has cut production at manufacturing plants whose output is largely sold in the United States .
"If it's bad there, it will be worse here," said Bartolo Juarez , 35, who makes jeans for Levis and Guess at a Teziutlan factory and already has discussed moving to the United States if his job here vanishes. His 12-year-old daughter, Gabriela, has broken down in tears more than once after hearing her parents talk about her father leaving for the States, her mother said.
"It's a sacrifice. I don't want to go, but I know I can get a good-paying job in San Antonio ," even in troubled economic times, Juarez said. It's always easier to find work in the United States than in Mexico , he added, and for five times more money.
Economists say that U.S. recessions historically are tougher on Mexico than they are on the United States , and that while U.S. officials say that border security measures, such as building a wall along the Mexican border, have reduced illegal immigration in recent months, they won't hold back the flood of workers that's likely if Mexican factories close.
The majority of the 72,000 people who live in this rainy town tucked up in the cloud forests of the Sierra Norte mountains in central Mexico work in more than 30 factories that specialize in assembling pants for distribution in the United States .
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