THE UNDOCUMENTED WAR

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Part 1
Writer Charles Bowden takes Scott Carrier to the Arizona/Mexico border. There, in the middle of the night, and amid thousands of Mexicans making their way north, Bowden explains the forces that lead them to make this journey.

Part 2
Recently a group of volunteer patrols known as the Minutemen stopped Mexicans from sneaking across the Arizona border. Some states want to mimmick their success. If somehow they could stop the migration and deport the 11 million illegal aliens already here, the economic effect would be devastating. Crops would rot in the fields. Hotels, restaurants and construction businesses would fold. America's dependence on cheap labor ensures this won't happen. Even as Congress debates the immigration problem, thousands of illegal immigrants are arriving. In the second part of our series, reporter Scott Carrier looked at the problem from both sides of the frontier.

Part 3
How bad would things have to be in your town, in your state, for you to risk your life crossing an international border that stretches across harsh desert terrain, with only a pair of thin-soled shoes and a jug of water? Around the border area of Tuscon, Arizona alone the border this year, nearly a half million mostly Mexicans were picked up by the border patrol trying to leave Mexico for the United States. Probably double that number made it in the country. At least several hundred will die trying. Scott Carrier takes us to the US border with Mexico to find out why so many Mexicans are crossing, and what it looks like to US resident Byrd Baylor, whose home has a window on this human migration.
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/features/undocumented_war/

[sam sarrha]

1. they aren't dying because of us. But because of the corrupt Mexican gov'

The 'Haves' in Mexico enjoy a standard of living second only to France !!

BECAUSE they Export the Poverty they create for the 'HaveNots'..

"The UN called Mexico Morally Bankrupt and Democratically unretrievable..."

if we wanted to create a democracy out of a despotic government ..We should have invaded "Mexico"..again

[seemslikeadream]

2. I do not care who is responsible

THEY ARE DYING

Go ahead and assign blame, if that makes you feel better

This U.S. administration is Morally Bankrupt and possibly Democratically unretrievable..."