“At its core, it is a drama of poverty,” said Romulo Emiliani, the bishop in San Pedro Sula. “To people here, the United States is a paradise.”
They are coming to America because a good job in Honduras means sewing underwear in a sweatshop for $47 a week. They are leaving neighborhoods where you can walk down block after block of abandoned houses spray-painted with gang graffiti, with collapsed roofs and jungle plants sprouting in the living rooms.
“Do you know why people migrate there? Do you know? Because there is no work here. There is no work,” said Ana Patricia Mejia, 39, who had tried to make the trip with her kids and her neighbor’s son but was deported from Mexico. “Of course I am going again. I have to have a house. I do not have a place to live. If I want to or not, if the gringos like it or not, I am coming.”
Waldina Lizeth Amaya, a 37-year-old mother of four, decided to take her children to America after failing to find a job at the local factories. In the past, she had worked illegally in a restaurant in Mexico and for several years in Honduras in a factory making bras and panties. “I looked all over. I brought my papers to various companies. I have experience, and I couldn’t find anything,” she said, “The U.S. is an advanced country, and I want my children to study there. I want them to have a better life. That’s the main reason.
Three days a week — Monday, Wednesday, Friday — white buses pull up downtown and deposit hundreds of people who have failed to reach that paradise. Two flights carrying up to 135 passengers each arrive every weekday at the San Pedro Sula airport with deported Hondurans.
“We are not going to stop sending people, and you guys are not going to be able to stop them from getting in,” said Lt. Col. Reyes Garcia.
They are coming to America because a good job in Honduras means sewing underwear in a sweatshop for $47 a week. They are leaving neighborhoods where you can walk down block after block of abandoned houses spray-painted with gang graffiti, with collapsed roofs and jungle plants sprouting in the living rooms.
“Do you know why people migrate there? Do you know? Because there is no work here. There is no work,” said Ana Patricia Mejia, 39, who had tried to make the trip with her kids and her neighbor’s son but was deported from Mexico. “Of course I am going again. I have to have a house. I do not have a place to live. If I want to or not, if the gringos like it or not, I am coming.”
Waldina Lizeth Amaya, a 37-year-old mother of four, decided to take her children to America after failing to find a job at the local factories. In the past, she had worked illegally in a restaurant in Mexico and for several years in Honduras in a factory making bras and panties. “I looked all over. I brought my papers to various companies. I have experience, and I couldn’t find anything,” she said, “The U.S. is an advanced country, and I want my children to study there. I want them to have a better life. That’s the main reason.
Three days a week — Monday, Wednesday, Friday — white buses pull up downtown and deposit hundreds of people who have failed to reach that paradise. Two flights carrying up to 135 passengers each arrive every weekday at the San Pedro Sula airport with deported Hondurans.
“We are not going to stop sending people, and you guys are not going to be able to stop them from getting in,” said Lt. Col. Reyes Garcia.
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Labour power is a commodity. If you flood the labour market, you'll eventually lower the price of labour power below its value. It's in the interests of labour to sell its skills to an employer. It's in the interests of the employer to buy the labour power it needs at the lowest price. This is the freedom which the mealy mouthed media moguls espouse. It is the freedom of buyers and sellers in the marketplace of commodities.
This is indeed an economic system built upon competition where people are divided in a dog eat dog reality of survival that employers take full advantage of. (See our latest post on the welfare state. http://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/ )
More the reason to abolish the system since it will always be so. The names and faces are the only things that have changed over history. .
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