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WHEN HOME IS NO LONGER A HAVEN!


Arivaca, Arizona - All the talk in Washington in recent weeks about putting walls and soldiers along the border with Mexico did not stop Miguel Espindola from trying to cross the most inhospitable part of it with his wife and two small children. .

Their 6-year-old daughter, Karla, clutched her mother's back pocket with one hand and a bottle

of Gatorade with the other as the family set out across the Sonora Desert. Miguelito,

, lugged a backpack that seemed to weigh almost as much as he did.

“Yes, there is risk, but there is also need,” said Mr Espindola, explaining why he had brought his children on a journey that killed 464 immigrants last year, and a 3-year-old boy in mid-May.

Looking out at the vast parched landscape ahead, Mr Espindola, a coffee farmer, talked about

the poverty he had left behind, and said: “Our damned government forces us to leave our country because it does not give us good salaries. The United States forces us to go this way.”[...]

In the last five years, Arizona has become the principal, and deadliest, gateway for illegal migrants. It accounts for nearly one-third of the 1.5 million people captured for illegally

crossing the border last year, and nearly half the migrants who died, according to the United States Border Patrol. [...]

Worried about the enormous drain on taxpayers, voters in Arizona passed a ballot initiative intended to limit immigrants' access to public services. Meanwhile, economists like Marshall Vest at the University of Arizona said the illegal immigrants were an important source of labor

for the booming construction and tourism industries that had helped make Arizona the second- fastest growing state, after Nevada. [...]

Frank Ormsby, a rancher, and his brother, Lloyd, said that after living for more than a decade in the middle of the build up of the Border Patrol and the immigrant waves, they were sick of it. There are more backpacks littering the desert than rocks, they said, and enough money is

being spent on equipment for the Border Patrol to rebuild New Orleans.

To them, illegal immigration is a huge business managed by powerful interests to make money and political careers. Among the beneficiaries, Frank Ormsby said, were immigrant smugglers, whose fortune is increased every time a new law enforcement effort was announced, and the Border Patrol, whose budget has increased fivefold in 10 years.

On the Mexican side of the border, Mexican immigration agents said they felt helpless in stopping the immigrants, even though the law prohibits citizens from leaving through unofficial ports.

“This is a sad reality”, said Mario Lopez, an agent in Grupo Beta, a Mexican government agency that seeks to protect migrants. “We hate to see our people leaving this way. But, what

can we do, except wish them luck.”


Ginger THOMPSON, The New York Times, Saturday, May 27, 2006.







Write the two essays :


1. Imagine Miguel Espindola’s first days in Arizona. (120 words)


2. Do you think that walls can stop Mexican illegal immigrants from coming into the USA ? (120 words)



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