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think that a few Mexicans without arms are somehow going to seize control of one third of US territory. This would be one of the greatest satires known to mankind, if it were not for the fact that millions of Americans believe it is true. The blind hatred displayed and copied by the millions of Americans who believe this crap is the fuel that Congress and the president feed on and promote to enact even more draconian measures against the immigrant.

But wait, there's another side to this tale.

Let's put all of this in the eyes of the immigrant. It is clear that millions of Americans are duped into believing that the undocumented worker poses a dire threat to the sanctity of the US. What does the immigrant think?

For the undocumented worker living in the US, the story is remarkably different. I have lived four years in Mexico, and I have interviewed countless Mexicans on the reasons for their exodus to the US. Here is what I've found. First I will start with the emigrant in the US and later, returning to Mexico.

Primarily, only Mexicans from Northern Mexico migrate to the US. The rest of Mexico tends to migrate to Mexico City. The people that migrate to Mexico City are called "Paracaidistas" or "parachutists", because if they land on your property and manage to build a dwelling there before you can get rid of them, they can claim permanent residence even though they don't own the land beneath them. The swelling slums outside of Mexico City
is testimony to this huge, unplanned migration that sorely lacks necessary infrastructure.The reason for their migration, either to Mexico City
or to the US, is universally for the betterment of one's own life, and the possibility of helping out the rest of one's family. This fact alone is hardly ever touched on in the main stream media in the US.Mexicans, or better said almost any migrant person, move to the US in order to make more money, and using this new found wealth, to help their family back home. Western Union has made a fortune by offering money transfer services of this kind.Nearly every Mexican I met either here or in Mexico
has told me that their first love is the country they were born and raised in, Mexico. They see their stay in the US
as merely transitory until they get enough money to retire at home in their native country.Believe it or not, the Mexicans living in Mexico
actually resent those who have traveled to the US to live. The reason is actually quite simple. Those who move to the US are usually in their teens

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