Bad economy forcing immigrants to reconsider U.S.

By Thelma Gutierrez and Wayne Drash
CNN
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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Pedro Pablo slowly folds up his American flag blanket and stuffs it in his duffel bag. With it goes his American dream.
Pedro Pablo, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, headed home recently due to the bad U.S. economy.

Pedro Pablo, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, headed home recently due to the bad U.S. economy.

"I left my family and lost four years with them. I will ask them to forgive me," he said.

Pablo is an illegal immigrant from Guatemala who came to the United States to support his wife and five sons back home. When he arrived, construction jobs were plentiful. Over the last year, he says, he's worked three days.

He recently boarded a bus with a one-way ticket home, paid for by the Guatemalan consulate in Los Angeles. "I thought I could get ahead here. I regret coming." Video Watch day laborers head home »

Across the United States, tens of thousands of immigrants -- those here legally and illegally -- are facing a similar dilemma: Do they continue to search for jobs in a struggling U.S. economy or return home to an even bleaker economic situation?

Continued at - http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/10/immigrants.economy/index.html

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[METALMAN4Wii]

bwaaaaaa ha ha ha see ya don't come back now you hear !

[PoliticalHackertTube]

Spare me your nostalgic and romantic view that Illegal Immigrants should all be offered our condolences because they're 'downtrodden'.

$ 8.00 an hour to them is equivalent to $120.00 per hour for us. It's no surprise why they come here to suck the well dry and send it all back home. And at the cost of tens of Billions annually per state.

Feel sorry for them? FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK THAT

Go back home you fucking leeches. The Mexican Government would have us in shackles for doing the same shit.

[DaSticksanStonesClub]

I love how they try to make you feel bad for the illegal immigrant. I think it's ridiculous. As far as I'm concerned he's not supposed to be here anyway and deserves anything he gets for stealing a job that a legal immigrant or a u.s. citizen could have had.

[bmwm321m]

The economy would be perfect for us contractors if we didnt have all these illegals in the u.s.

[CHICANOJIHADIST]

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[CHICANOJIHADIST]

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[CHICANOJIHADIST]

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[banjitson420]

@JIHADIST911 Your a fucking Xenophobe Mexican cartel/la raza pawn. You WILL LOOSE PERIOD! Bring all your cartel shit heads up here and see who wins against armed American citizens. You KNOW you don't want a full out war so just fuck off. See ya later wetback slave of Spain (East L.A. = AMERICA and always will) Let me know when you worked up the balls to invade because we are already waiting.

[banjitson420]

@KewazingaBabinga Total BS to say that we need illegals with work permits. We need to deport them and the people hiring them and if needed some Apache gunships to patrol the border. Oh and don't even pull the "who will pick our crops crap" I worked the fields and picked produce and earned jack shit but i was happy to get it. Most of you fuckers don't know how good you have it, nor would you ever. By the way i also live in AZ and It's not garbage only the spineless politicians are.

[carnypimp]

About time go the fuck back to mexcio so we americans can work!

[banjitson420]

@michael94bad1 So the whole Viva La Mexico they want to make the United States into what Mexico is now... a shit hole. I hope their lives are at risk they are ILLEGAL... Fuck arresting the illegals arrest the people who hire them and deport them... american citizen or not. BTW The system of using slave labor isn't really humane is it?

[michael94bad1]

@banjitson420 Its crazy how people could care less about a fellow human. Just because he wasnt born here dosnt make him any lesser than you. Is it really a crime to cross an imaginary line? He more than likely risked his life to get here. And you ask why dont they go back and fix their government . The u.s will not allow that they have investments in those Latin American country's the gov is unstable so the u.s can take their natural resources.