Posted on 04/16/2020 1:00:22 AM PDT by Helicondelta
Maria was terrified when her 23-year-old daughter, Daniela, fled their small Guatemalan village for the United States.
The young woman had taken out a 70,000-quetzales, or $9,000, loan to pay coyotes to smuggle her north. She used as collateral the only thing of value her family had: the house that had been in the family for generations.
She made it to Los Angeles, where she spent the past year cleaning houses to send money home to Maria and her two children. But now that the novel coronavirus pandemic has locked down the city, and much of the country, she’s out of work with no idea when she’ll get another paycheck.
“There's nothing to pay the debt,” said Maria, who asked that her family use pseudonyms to protect them from abusive former partners. “What are we going to do if she can't send money?”
“It is really a matter of life and death to be able to pay those loans,” said Cecilia Menjivar, a UCLA sociology professor who studies Central America. “They'll do whatever they can to pay.”
Menjivar said that in many towns, in lieu of banks or cooperatives, private individuals operate informal businesses loaning money to migrants, some with interest rates as high as 25%. If migrants can’t pay, the loans are also “enforced informally,” said Menjivar.
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Tell the illegal to get out.
She is not wanted here.
Go fix your country. ......oh,
CA is her country. The CA governor is giving her taxpayer funded relief check. ....
So, a women who pays a man to illegally transport her through two countries, then gets a illegal job in the US, now can’t pay the criminal gang that got her there? This seems like the women is supporting criminal Mexican gangs. And since we are going into a big recession where every person with a legal job is losing their savings, promotion or even their own job, how can we feel sorry for the criminals. Let this women write back home that America has no jobs. Don’t give money to gangs or beak laws.
OH Boo Hoo, go home and get a job!!!
Politicians are not going to allow this.
They depend on “coyotes’” donations.
Sounds like she is creating a tale that she hopes will get her accepted as a refugee with chain migration for her extended family to follow.
That’s a shame.
these are illegal aliens who only care about taking money earned here, often under stolen identities, and sending that money out of the country.
get them back to their ‘superior’ country.
With all that is morally wrong with this story, presented as a sob-story, I expected the source to be New York Times.
My heart bleeds
GTFO
We’re FULL
Who let that woman sell out the entire family for this? I think there is more to this prostitution story of betrayal. Prostitution and human traffic “victims” are not innocent, imo. The fact they get raped or peddled that way on the way is a sheep clothing... they all practice abortion and kill their own babies for it.
Open a Go Fund Me account.
“OH Boo Hoo, go home and get a job!!!”
You literally have to pay for the good jobs in Mexico. I was talking to my driver, a family member of a friend who was taking leave from his power company job to drive me around the Baja. He had to take out a loan from family to get money to pay a bribe to get a job working for the power company. It was the best deal of his life as employees get free power. He lived in an uninsulated shed in the desert that he kept at about 58 degrees. He said it was status to air-condition down to that level. It seems she could have done the same financial trick to get a job in Mexico, but there must be a limited supply of “good” jobs. This is the problem with corruption. It prevents a real marketplace that would benefit everyone from working.
Why would we even believe the story...the woman is anonymous...I.e she’s ficti9nal.
F em. I have my own problems.
Human trafficking deal goes bad.
I'm "scared" what he might do to me if I don't pay him in a timely fashion, so all you taxpayers are now officially "on the hook" for the cost of my criminal activities.
Regards,
Nope, giveadamn meter didn’t twitch, not even a little bit. Sometimes ones highest and best calling is to act as a warning to others.
They do nothing more than attempt to tear-jerk people into believing that we should take the world onto our shoulders.
I am firmly in the "America First" column, but I have no real problem with helping where we can in the world.
But there are limits...and anytime we "help" an illegal alien invader and a US Citizen suffers as a result, I am not on board...period.
I am not without compassion, but them peoples problems are NOT my problems and I refuse to shoulder them.
I fully understand what motivates them to do what they do...I've been to many of these third (and fourth, if the truth be told) world countries...I've seen the terrible poverty and the mistreatment and I firmly believe we should assist as we can.
But not to the tune of throwing open our doors and our pocketbooks right here in our homeland.
They need to fix the problems in their homelands their selves and we should provide guidance and monetary assistance in situ.
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