WHAT SHOULD THEY DO Too broke to buy a ticket home, Valley's immigrant day laborers just hang on?

They are down and out in the United States and homesick for Guatemala. And El Salvador. And Honduras. And Mexico.



And they would go back without even an American penny in their pocket if only they had enough to get home.



They are the discouraged and disillusioned Central American and Mexican day laborers who, in a sign of how hard times are in this economy, find themselves so broke they can't send much, if any, money back to loved ones they haven't seen for years.



';We have lost our reason for being here,'; laments Jose Perez, 42, a Guatemalan living in the San Fernando Valley who vows he will be back home by next Christmas - and wishes he could leave sooner.



';I would leave today, with just the clothes on my back, if I had the money. It wasn't that long ago that I used to put money aside to send home. Now I'm saving it in hopes that I can go back home.';



Perez, who hasn't seen his wife and family in five years, is among the hundreds of day laborers who gather each morning at the same corners in various parts of the Valley, hoping to find work cleaning yards, hauling furniture, painting houses or doing light construction.



But in an increasingly tight economy, homeowners are now handling many of the tasks they used to hire day laborers to perform.



';The dream I had when I left Guatemala to come to America is now gone,'; said Perez with a trace of bitterness.



He is not alone.



The economic recession and the crackdown on illegal immigration have forced growing numbers of Central American immigrants to consider giving up their dreams in the United States and returning to their homelands, according to an Inter-American Development Bank survey of 5,000

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I'd like to ask didn鈥檛 the ICE have a program last year for free rides back to their home countries, and no one showed up to take them up on it?WHAT SHOULD THEY DO Too broke to buy a ticket home, Valley's immigrant day laborers just hang on?
You posted this already under one of your other troll accounts. What is your question or was this rant a particular favorite? They will do whatever they have to just like the rest of us.WHAT SHOULD THEY DO Too broke to buy a ticket home, Valley's immigrant day laborers just hang on?
Good riddance. These people are partly responsible for the ridiculous housing situation.



They are finally part of the solution (to the problem they created) if they leave.
Report them to INS, say they are workig illegaally.
Yes, ICE had a program where they'd have flown them home for free and even granted them time to wrap up their affairs before leaving. Even now ICE will fly them home, 100% free of charge.
I'd like to ask didn鈥檛 the ICE have a program last year for free rides back to their home countries, and no one showed up to take them up on it?

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Yes... voluntary repatriations. It was a good program and it would still be a good program if ICE could do it.
Actually ICE had between 6 and 8 people who took them up on the offer.



If they are homesick, they can still turn themselves in. I forget how many planes leave daily heading south full of southern illegals, but I do know that they returned over 250,000 just last year.
';You posted this already under one of your other troll accounts. What is your question or was this rant a particular favorite? They will do whatever they have to just like the rest of us.';
They should put on a pair of shoes and start walking back the way they came.