Is This A Sign Of The Times Feeling Recession’s Sting, Some Immigrants Going Home?
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Is This A Sign Of The Times Feeling Recession’s Sting, Some Immigrants Going Home?
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Monday morning, Rafael Novarro has already put in a four-hour day waiting for work that never comes.
Laid off three months earlier as a carpet installer, the El Salvadoran immigrant regularly joins a group of immigrants standing at the edge of a gas station in Carbondale, Colo. They hope contractors will stop and offer jobs, even if the wages pale in comparison to just a few months ago. Every rumbling diesel truck offers hope, but each one pulls away again, and this crowd of 10 men, many wearing work boots, their work gloves stashed in their pockets, sweatshirt hoods pulled over their heads against the cold, remain behind.
“Almost nobody has any work,” says Rigoberto Leon Ruiz, one of the men waiting.
It’s a scene common in cities like Los Angeles or Houston but until recently unheard of in places like Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley, home to Aspen, where jobs were abundant and employers relied on immigrants to fill work crews. The economic downturn has hammered the West’s resort economy, though, and it has hit immigrants particularly hard. More than others, they rely on jobs in the struggling construction and service industries. Those here illegally lack the cushion of unemployment benefits.
From Las Vegas to Jackson Hole, Wyo., many across the West are going home. Some set out in search of jobs in other states. Others hang on, relying on the kindness of friends and family, and hoping for better times ahead. “If not,” Novarro says, “I’m going back to El Salvador soon, because I can’t stay here without work – without anything.”
The number of returnees is likely to pick up as the recession deepens, says Demetrios Papademetriou, president of the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan Washington think tank.
“They’re the most vulnerable group,” Papademetriou says. “They’re overrepresented, in some cases extremely overrepresented, in the industries that lost massive numbers of jobs and continue to lose jobs. … The ones that bled early and bled deep continue to bleed today. The same types of people that got hurt early continue to get hurt today.”
In a study released Tuesday, the Pew Hispanic Center found illegal immigrants were more likely to be unemployed than citizens or legal immigrants. Unemployment among illegal immigrants was 6.5 percent, compared to 5.6 percent for other groups. That’s a switch from four years ago, when illegal immigrants had the lowest unemployment rate of anyone.
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Straight is Great!
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This is the only benefit I can see by this recession. I hope most go back where they came from! |
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kathy059
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Good, they should go home. |
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My guess is they are illegal as there is no indication of unemployment checks or job training classes and standing on a corner how do they really get to stand there and loiter.Americans are facing the same problems. Most of these folks have send money home and can return and live off of it until times improve |
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mimi
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So when did he say he was going home because soon doesn't cut it with us taxpayers.Oh and by the way that employer that worked him should be fined and heavily too.Then maybe poor Rafael would have gone home sooner.Of course I didn't see in this article that he was here illegally either.But since he was standing on a street corner I would guess he was. |
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Salem
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finally, something good is coming out of this mess |
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a1goodknight
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I can only hope so!
I also hope they don't commit any more crimes on their way home to their own country. |
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riverland73
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THAT IS SO SAD FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY TRYING TO WORK HARD TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR FAMILIES, EVERY ONE NEEDS A CHANCE TO DO SO, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE ARE SO MEAN TO THESE INDIVIDUALS, MAYBE IF MOST OF YOU KNEW GOD, AND REALLY UNDERSTAND THAT GOD IS LOVE, YOU WOULD SYMPATHIZE MORE WITH PEOPLE LIKE THEM. |
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