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  • Mexicans Take Big Risks to Go North

    10/19/2002 1:56:44 PM PDT · by GeneD · 32 replies · 1,168+ views
    AP via N ^ | 10/19/2002
    Filed at 4:44 p.m. ET LOS CONOS, Mexico (AP) -- Roberto Esparza crossed the U.S. border illegally three times, believing each time he was a step closer to building a comfortable life for his wife and 14-month-old son in this arid Mexican hamlet. The first two trips brought the 23-year-old iron worker to Sarasota, Fla., where along with hundreds of other Mexicans from poverty-stricken towns, he labored at landscaping and construction jobs, earning 10 times more money than what he could scrape together in his hometown of Los Conos. Esparza told his wife before setting off for the third time...