Posted on 06/03/2021 3:46:02 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
TIZAMARTE, Guatemala - Alvina Jerónimo Pérez tries to avoid going out. She doesn’t want to see neighbors. She’s even changed the chip in her cellphone since her failed journey to the United States.
The 42-year-old woman is fearful her unsuccessful migration could cost her more than she can bear — even the single-story concrete block house her husband built on land passed down from her great grandparents in this mountaintop hamlet in south-central Guatemala.
From afar, it seemed a safe bet. Many others in town, even in her own family, had made similar journeys. “Since people were passing (the border), we thought they were going to let us pass,” Jerónimo said.
The smuggler told her to bring her daughter to make it a sure thing, banking on the idea U.S. authorities wouldn’t deport a minor or her parent.
In March 2020, she and her daughter Yessenia, then 14, left Tizamarte. Three weeks later they were caught entering Texas. They were deported a week after that.
When Jerónimo realized they would be sent back, she cried. “I thought of everything the trip had cost me. I asked myself ‘What am I going to do?’ I’ve lost everything.”
Jerónimo is among more than 228,000 Guatemalans deported by the United States since 2015. For many of those, the dream failed. They were sent home with the stigma of failure and staggering debts that can’t be paid in a country where the minimum wage is about $11 per day.
She, like many others, sees no way out but to try again.
Others in her family had migrated successfully in past years, though at least one attempt ended in tragedy.
Jerónimo’s son-in-law Santiago de León left in December 2018 with his 5-year-old son Wilman. They made it to the U.S..
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Has the AP ever written an article on American lives upturned by failed immigration policy?
American lives gladdened by failed immigration bids.
Cry me a r**king river.
An AP sob story about a poor poor woman, who thought it was a good idea to come to my country ILLEGALY. Come to my country to make a sh*thole like she comes from.
NO SALE!
Borrowed money she couldn’t repay,huh?
Bad planning on her part does not constitute cause to ignore her illegal behavior on our part.
“Failed ‘immigration’ bids”?
They must mean “Foiled criminality bids”.
JERONIMO!!!!
The cradle to grave welfare types are exactly what we DON”T need.
What other country in the world takes millions and millions of economic refugees every single year?
The USA already helps way more than any other country. We give millions in government aid to Gautamala and all the other central american $hitholes.
The USA is like a big ship that is taking on water. It won’t be long before we fully sink.
I am giving a sh*t how exactly, APgarbage?
Thieves.
The lot of them. Coming here to steal from Americans and destroying our lives.
“Failed immigration” like getting caught robbing a bank is being denied funds.
Alvina,
As part of the self-assessment you are now doing, you need to educate yourself in what is a prudent risk to take, and what is not.
To roll the dice with your life savings is not prudent.
When I look at the picture I do not see hunger. Neither she nor her husband appear to have missed a single meal. Somewhere buried in the article is the fact that she was able to make it several thousand miles to the U. S. border in a mere three weeks. I do not believe that. This is AP BS.
Bank robbers have their lives upturned when they get caught, don’t they?
Yeah, I tried digging a tunnel into the money vault of my neighborhood bank, but was foiled by their security measures.
I was only looking to make a better life for my family and myself!
My "bid" failed. It has upturned my life, I tell yuh!
Regards,
how is it possible that we have been sending money to Guatemala forever and not one administration has insisted they use the money to fund schools free to their young people?
I read these stories about kids in these countries dropping out b/c their families can’t pay the fees and I’m just stunned.
I read this stuff, and it makes me grit my teeth. Very difficult reading about the goings-on these days.
It sure comes across as a concerted effort to destroy this country outright by as many different pathways, techniques, and methods as possible, all being taken by entities across the media, entertainment, and political spectrums up to and including the President of The United States.
Not to mention those outside this country who wish to bring us down.
Geronimo on his deathbed, said, “I wish I could have killed more Mexicans”.
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Yes, alexander_busek really put it well in the post above...the exact same sentiment.
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