Immigration has become one of the most important and contentious
issues of our time. But even as policy makers in the United States
and Mexico argue over what to do about the half million or more
Mexicans who cross the border illegally each year to work in the
United States, one fact has become indisputable. Illegal
immigration has enhanced the lives of poor people more than any
policy attempted by either the U.S. or the Mexican governments.
Immigrants sent home $23 billion dollars in 2006 alone, rivaling
what Mexico earned from selling oil. But the human cost of
migration is equally high. Border crossers risk injury, attack,
rape, and death, while undocumented workers often toil under
dangerous and exploitative conditions in the United States.
These harsh realities constitute the heart of Exodus/exodo, a
powerful collaboration between writer Charles Bowden and
photographer Julian Cardona that puts a human face on the issue of
illegal immigration. Expanding on their award-winning 2006 Mother
Jones article titled "Exodus: Border-Crossers Forge a New America,"
Bowden and Cardona take us to border towns, in which impoverished
men and women hire "coyotes" to get them across the line; to Ciudad
Juarez, where hundreds of young women maquiladora workers have been
murdered and their families still seek justice; to Minutemen camps
along the border, where citizen vigilantes keep watch; to New
Orleans, North Carolina, and California, where migrants find
back-breaking work in construction, agriculture, and other
industries; to protest marches, as immigrants assert their right to
stay in the United States; and to villages in Mexico, in which
remitted dollars are building homes as lavish as thedreams that
fuel the migrations.
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