'The US isn't an option anymore': why California's immigrants are heading back to Mexico

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'The US isn't an option anymore': why California's immigrants are heading back to Mexico

Years of anti-immigrant policies from the Trump administration have been magnified by insecurities resulting from the pandemic

Maanvi Singh in San Francisco
 

Thu 31 Dec 2020 06.00 EST
Last modified on Thu 31 Dec 2020 09.18 EST
 

California’s most vulnerable immigrants have faced unprecedented challenges this year, with some weighing whether it’s worth staying in the United States altogether.

Ten months of a pandemic that has disproportionately sickened immigrants and devastated some of the industries that rely on immigrant labor, combined with years of anti-immigrant policies by the Trump administration have exacerbated insecurities for undocumented people and immigrants working low-wage jobs across California.

For immigrants at the bottom of the economic ladder, it’s never been easy in the US, said Luz Gallegos, the executive director of the immigrant advocacy group Training Occupational Development Educating Communities Legal Center (Todec).

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/31/california-immigration-mexico-coronavirus-us

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To quote Jimrob, woo hoo.

Go, covid.

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For immigrants at the bottom of the economic ladder, it’s never been easy in the US, said Luz Gallegos, the executive director of the immigrant advocacy group Training Occupational Development Educating Communities Legal Center (Todec).

While this may have been true at one time in recent years, a decade at least, in states like California there is only one response to this victimhood baloney.

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For immigrants at the bottom of the economic ladder, it’s never been easy in the US, said Luz Gallegos, the executive director of the immigrant advocacy group Training Occupational Development Educating Communities Legal Center (Todec).

While this may have been true at one time in recent years, a decade at least, in states like California there is only one response to this victimhood baloney.

I hear China needs laborers.