Only in California can be found 13.2 million latinos. 24 Percent of the undocumented work in California, 91 percent of day laborers there are Mexicans, and 80 percent of them are illegal. The question then is why the fields patterns enable it? The answer is easy, the undocumented are good and cheap labor. It would an American man to pay much more than an undocumented, therefore maintains those deals almost in secret with undocumented day laborers. A legal way that immigrants could be used to enter the country legally is to ask a visa guest. A visa guest is a permit to reside in the country for a few months for labour issues, however, compliment the period the individual is forced to return to their country of origin.
The problem with these visas is that they are very limited and therefore they are coveted and sold with blackmail and extra fees, that, if the individual to compliment with all legal backstops. One of the requirements to obtain a visa Guest is to have proof of housing in Mexico, or perhaps any other possession; the problem is that in principle these people are migrating to the United States because they have nothing. In case outside little, immigrants help impressively to the American community because, contrary to popular myth, they do pay tax, the injustice is that these people who spend years paying them at the end not benefit from that investment such as health and pension services. Since the beginning of this year we could glimpse the problem afflicting us all globally, we speak of the American recession. There is a well known phrase that expresses that when United States gives you flu, Mexico gives you pneumonia. Our dependence on the North American country takes damage when its economy is unbalanced. The Bank of Mexico stated: in the eighth month of the year (2008), income from remittances from migrant workers totaled thousand 937 million dollars, figure that meant an annual decrease of 12.2 per cent percent, one of the lowest levels recorded since 1995 when this indicator was created.
