Think of yourself as a married American man. Imagine you and your wife have decided that you will sneak in to Canada because you feel you cannot do well in America, you cannot earn your fortune.
Now imagine you have been gone years. Perhaps you send money home once in a while. Though, otherwise you don’t do much about contacting your wife and kids. Still, even if you do your wife is raising your children alone. Your children have no memory of you. To them you are only a name on a money gram or a check.
Would your wife like this arrangement? Would you feel you were being a proper Father with this arrangement?
Or is it more likely that she would want you to come home? Don’t you think she would be sick and tired of your absence, even for the money?
The Washington Times brings us a story that reminds us that illegal immigration has a face to it that few think about. This face is that of Fatherless children and wives without their men stranded in Mexico. This is a story of whole towns in Mexico emptied of working age men who have run off to the United States to make more money.
The women of Tecalpulco, Mexico have created a cottage industry built upon the arts and crafts made by the local women left in the area and, along with advertising their works, they have created a website publicly calling for the USA to enforce its border laws. These industrious and lonely women want the USA to send their men home to them.
Calling themselves “Wetback Wives, Wetback Widows”, these women have had enough.(http://www.artcamp.com.mx/venga/)
TO THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT - CLOSE THE BORDER SEND OUR MEN HOME TO US, EVEN IF YOU MUST DEPORT THEM (only treat them in a humane manner - please do not hurt them)
The work is in the United States that is why the men left.
Leaving millions of broken families in the villages now our men are running from the police
But now we have organized our village cottage industry around the traditional handcraft jewelry of our region of Mexico.
Our village of Tecalpulco was very successful in the 1980s when our parents were the creators of the abalone shell jewelry
Ours is a beautiful place to live and since we have formed our womens artisans cooperative and begun to have some success our hope is that the Mexican men who have gone to the US return.
PLEASE CLOSE THE BORDER TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION - AFTER ALL, IT IS THE LAW -
READ: MEXICO-USA ILLEGAL MIGRATION NEWSWe dont need anybodys help, we are proud artisans, not anyone can make, the kind of beautiful jewelry we make in our workshops. God will help us to meet the needs of our family
to surmount the great difficulties we have always faced, as Mexican women over the centuries.
Writer David Yeagley of Frontgapemag.com also had a short story on this last May wherein some letters written by these desperate women were published. Yeagley also locates Tecalpulco, Mexico for us: “Tecalpulco is a small village in Guerrero, Mexico, on Mexico’s southernmost border. It is just north of the city of Campuzano”, he writes.
On the Wetback Wives site we see the plaintive pleas from these abandoned women.
One woman asks for Ruben to come home. “I know we agreed you should try your fortune in the United States, but I didn’t know that it would be so lonely and that you would be gone for such a long time, please return to us,”
Another one calls out to Pedro, “how I miss you. you said you were only going to Arizona to get money for our house but now you have been away and did not come back when your sister got married. Oh how I worry that you have another woman! Dont you love me? You told me you love me. You love me. I know you love me, and our life together”
This aspect of illegal immigration is one not often thought about and reveals yet one more reason why the USA should take control of its borders. We Americans need to stop illegal immigration for ourselves, of course. But also for the Mexican families torn apart as a result of their men leaving home.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackGood points all in this posting. Now if we can just get the Prez to read it.
I am pleased that you are covering this issue of family separation, the pain that migration can cause, and the potential that small-scale economic development has to deter Mexican migration north. But, the solution - massive deportation - is not as simple as the wetback wives would suggest. Deporting around 8 million Mexicans would create as much chaos in home countries as it would in U.S. communities, where migration and integration have changed the face of Mexican and U.S. society.
Deportation can’t magically adjust the uneven relationship between Mexico - one of the poorest nations in the world - and the U.S - the richest. Nor can it eliminate the fact the two countries share a near 2,000 mile border that will always be semi permeable. You can’t reverse the force of economic liberalization. Open borders have resulted in the loss of many low-wage jobs in Mexico and a growing demand for low-skill labor in the U.S. We’d have to dig deeper into the cottage industry that the woman of Tecalpulco have established in order to really assess whether or not they have created enough jobs and money to keep their men fully employed at home. But having recently conducted research nearby Guerrero - probably the poorest state in Mexico - I highly doubt that the cottage industry will support the entire community. After all, if it were such a dynamite local economy, wouldn’t their husbands come home out of their own volition instead of needing to be forcefully deported by U.S. immigration?
Deportation can’t normalize a migration pattern that has depended on years and years of illicit trafficking, hiding in the shadows, and whole industries that place undocumented immigrants in U.S. jobs.
Most importantly - and the truth that these women in Tecalpulco do not want to believe - is that mass deportation cannot address the deep emotional scars that years of family separation have created.
Yes, we need to get control of our borders - but any enforcement-only approach will fail us all. First, we need to create fair and humane vehicles for immigrant workers to migrate to the U.S. legally to fill jobs. Unlike past visa programs that have created a second class citizenry, any visa program must provide full labor protections, allow workers to bring their immediate families, and create paths to permanent residency and citizenship. Second, we need to legalize the 12 million undocumented workers that are already here, and let them decide (based on their jobs, economic, and social situations) whether they want to return to Mexico or remain in the U.S. Third, we need to provide solid integration programs that help immigrants to learn English and assimilate into U.S. society; anyone that works in the U.S. today represents our nation’s talent in the future, and we can’t be lax about preparing our future citizenry in this day in age. And lastly, we need to help Mexico develop industries that keep workers at home. It’s hard to keep people in a country where they can make 10x as much north of the border. But if you create the right financial and academic incentives, and create a Mexico rich in opportunities for the average man and woman, the U.S. will be the nation pleading for more open borders and struggling to attract Mexican immigrants.
Look, none of these problems are simple. And I know how painful it is for many women who have all but been abandoned in Mexico. But, how dare anyone use the personal pain of these families to promote immediate deportation of all undocumented immigrants? We need a comprehensive solution. All this other stuff is just the wishful thinking that creates false hope, and keeps people living in dreams instead of in reality.
it’s not as simple as you
[…] Illegal immigrants will never be stopped by our government. No matter how much documented harm they cause, the government has too much to gain from them being here. A new study shows that husbands are leaving their families to come to the US and escape. Want a good laugh? Go to http://www.bloggernews.net/14867 and check it out. The wives are begging the United States to deport their husbands back to Mexico. I love it. […]
I feel sad for the wives in Mexico who believe the lies their husbands are telling them, that they have no other women in the U.S. It is human nature for lonely people to seek out the companionship of someone else. I live in an area that is strongly occupied by lots of Mexican men and they are indeed dating, co-habitating with, and having children by American women, lying to their wives at home.
I am sorry for the hurt i may have caused to any Mexican woman. I was in a relationship for 6 months and had planned to get married to this mexican man from mexico city who said he never had a wife but children he had to send money to. I am an educated attractive woman who feel hurt as well when i found the truth. To all the woman of these men who leave them I am truly sorry.
I have a mexican wife with a 7 month old and one on the way. I have 2 girlfriends with kids that i fathered. It feels good to be dominant. You people are suckers
Wow I wonder who’s supporting all these children on your $3 an hour salary and that’s what you call being dominant. On another note why don’t these women appeal to their own government. Lord knows we’ve been begging for the same thing for years.
Women pay close attention please. This is no joke - reread galestra1 comments above. These machistas are here to exploit you to the fullest all under the disguise of love and charm. They can talk you out everything. Not least of which is your heart and your money.
Do not give them money ever and you will find out quickly if they truly care about you. Sure they will play along for awhile but very soon they will want things from you. They learn from an early age how to manipulate women. Lies are the foundation to every relationship.
They believe that what you don’t know wont hurt you, therefore, they live their lives like single men even if they are in a relationship.
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