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Posted: February 22, 2008 |
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Migrant workers in northern Mexico face the option of trying to find work locally or risk crossing the border to look for jobs in the United States. Freelance journalist David Francis reported from Mexico on the perspectives of migrant workers and border guards.
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| Shelter workers say they have heard accounts of increasing violence toward migrants by coyotes - guides hired to take migrants across the border illegally. Violence in general has increased since Mexico's drug cartels diversified into weapons and human smuggling in the 1990s, said Francisco Gonzalez of Johns Hopkins University's SAIS. |
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| Photo Credit: David Francis |
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