On January 11th, 2008 BLACK CELL said:
By Marcell Dilworth
It was about 9:00 a.m. as she drove in her car down the long dessert road when she noticed three men walking down that road. “They looked tired and there clothes were dusty and it seemed as if they had spent most of their night walking trying to make it to their destination.” There wasn’t anything between the town that she had just come from and the Mexican border; not a farm or a gas station or rest area for travelers, just mountains and dessert. There wasn’t any doubt in Sally Saiz Perez’s mind that the three men walking down that road was making the long trek into America from Mexico. She thought to herself that “They had survived the journey” as she drove passed them.
Perez spent at least two weeks on the American side of the Mexican border monitoring a group called the Minutemen for the ACLU. The Minuteman was a group of American citizens who had took up arms to protect the border against the infiltration of the people they called “Illegal aliens who came in from Mexico.”
At that time, Perez and another member were stationed across the street from the home of a well known member of the Minutemen. Their job, basically, was to make sure that now laws were broken as the members of that organization attempted to accomplish their goal.
One night she reported hearing loud gun shots and that night seemed to take a new turn as the helicopters spent hours flying over and shining their lights in the area where she heard the gun shots coming from. The next morning the authorities reported that a Mexican had been shot and killed on the American side of the border and his body was dumped in Mexico another man was found dead in the mountains who had suffered gun shot wounds. No one knows what really happened but the authorities chalked it up as drug related.
It is often very difficult for the police to identify the suspects who commit the crimes against those who are trying to come into America illegally. Authorities think that most of the more violent deaths were done to illegal immigrant by smugglers who are known as coyotes, people who smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States for profit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrant_deaths_along_the_U.S.-Mexico_bord…
In 2005 the governors of Arizona and New Mexico declared national emergency declarations free up $1.5 million for Arizona and $1.75 million for New Mexico in disaster aid to assist counties along their southern borders. U.S. law enforcement officials said that Arizona and New Mexico’s borders with Mexico had became, and still is, a magnet for crime, drug smuggling and gang violence.
Many people who illegally migrate into America put themselves through extreme circumstances to enter into this country. There are those who don’t accomplish their goal and then there are those who illegally come into the country and successfully go through the process of becoming an American citizen. The reasons why they fail ranges from being apprehended by the border patrol to murder by gangs or coyote’s; one thing for sure is that they themselves, as well as, their family and friends have been affected by the stories.
David is person who wouldn’t tell me his last name but he was willing to talk about his cousin who hired a coyote to help him across the boarder. The coyote abandoned him and the came back with a friend latter on during the night and robed him. David explained that his cousin knew it was the coyote that had robbed him because the person features were the same as the man who he had hired earlier that day.
Citizens from Mexico aren’t the only people who illegally enter America by crossing the Mexican people illegally enter America by crossing the southern borders. People Chile, Honduras, Argentina, Asia, Malaysia, China, India, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Ukraine, Peru, Ecuador, Romania, and many other countries. The main reasons why they come is to find jobs or to reunite families; some illegal immigrant are her for all the wrong reasons like to traffic drugs, prostitution of even worse some are bought he and are used as slaves.
Crossing the border is a very dangerous and risky task, most who have went through the difficult process are afraid to tell their story because they believe that it may put them at risk of being deported. I spoke to one guy, who didn’t want his name printed in the story, but he had no problem telling me about his friend who failed to enter America because he tried to jump onto a moving train and he hit the ground, one of his legs inadvertently flopped on to the tracks and the moving train ran over his leg. That person is now living in Mexico with one leg.
Jose Hernandez told me about how his two friends entered America. They paid a coyote to help them get across the Mexican border and the guy gave them a giant inter tube and told to ride that inter tube across the river until they got to a certain destination. Harnandeze’s cousins floated on the giant inter tube for two day until they got to their destination and then got a ride to a motel where the rest of their family.
David is person who wouldn’t tell me his last name but he was willing to talk about his cousin who hired a coyote to help him across the boarder. The coyote abandoned him and the came back with a friend latter on during the night and robed him. David explained that his cousin knew it was the coyote that had robbed him because the person features were the same as the man who he had hired earlier that day.
The California border patrol has placed a sign in the dessert warning “Caution! Do not expose your life to the elements. It’s not worth it!” Maricela Estrada mom would have ignored that sign if she would have seen it. Estrada’s mom told her about how worried she was when she carried her threw the dessert.
Estrada was only two months old when he mom made the decision to travel the rough and rigid terrain of California’s southern dessert by feet. Estrada was a baby who slept with her eyes open and her mom will always remember checking on her and worrying and hoping that she wouldn’t find her baby dead.
Many poor Spanish speaking people risk their lives in order to come to America to change their unfortunate circumstances. They are hoping to live the type of life that Huego Gomez is now living.
Over 25 years ago Gomez and his wife was living a pretty good life in Mexico. Huego went to college at the University of Guadalajara, his major was Biology, while his wife worked as a nurse. They were saving their money so they could buy a home in the city and when the time came they gave their money to the broker in advance for the house. The value of the Paso drastically dropped putting Mexico’s economy through turmoil. Because of Mexico’s circumstances, the Gomez family never received their home nor did they ever retrieve the money that they gave the broker.
During that time Gomez’s wife was pregnant and he had a 2 year old daughter. He also had extreme difficulty finding a job and they decided to illegally entered America.
The Gomez family was granted their citizenship back in 1987 when President Ronald Reagan signed an amnesty bill into law, and now that his kids no longer lives with him he has decided to go back to college hoping that he could eventually become a Spanish teacher. His wife is now a registered nurse who works at St. Agnes hospital. After living the American dream Gomez hope to retire and return back to Mexico.