Undocumented Immigrants Prepare to Leave Arizona [View All]

[The Northerner]

PHOENIX – Faced with the unlikelihood that the federal government will pass an immigration-reform law any time soon, coupled with the toughening of Arizona’s state laws against illegal immigration, many undocumented aliens here are getting ready to go back to their own countries.

“The situation is getting more and more difficult, not only because it’s very hard to find work, but because you can no longer live in peace – you’re always afraid of being arrested by the cops,” Juan Martinez Ramos, an undocumented immigrant from the western Mexican state of Michoacan, told Efe.

The Martinez family is selling all the furniture in their two-room apartment in Phoenix in hopes of raising a little more cash.

“The American dream is over for us,” the father of three children, all born in the U.S., said.

The family hopes to leave the state by Dec. 21, in time to get back to Mexico for the Christmas celebrations.

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