Brazilians Streaming Into U.S. Through Mexican Border

[Roland99]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/international/americas/30brazil.html?ei=5090&en=e31a4c782e490298&ex=1277784000&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

BRAÚNAS, Brazil - For years, Jaider de Andrade, a 35-year-old farm worker, talked about going to the United States to look for work, and early in March he finally agreed to a trafficker's offer to fly him to Mexico and have him guided across the border there. By month's end, though, he was back home here again, in a coffin.

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Encouraged by highly organized groups of smugglers offering relatively cheap packages, Brazilians recently have been migrating in record numbers to the United States.

With direct entry to the United States tougher than in the past, more often than not their route of choice is through Mexico, which in recent years has stopped requiring entry visas of Brazilians.

During just two days in late April, Border Patrol agents in south Texas detained 232 Brazilians who had entered the United States illegally. All told, more than 12,000 Brazilians have been apprehended trying to cross the United States-Mexican border this year, exceeding the number detained in all of 2004 and pushing Brazilians to the top of the category known as "other than Mexicans."

Hmm..."trickle-down" economics isn't working like the dream it's touted to be? Hmm...

[whistle]

1. We'll be needing a third language in the U.S. pretty soon

[TahitiNut]

2. Most would be doing well to learn their own.

:shrug: Polylingual skills are an aspiration for some, while monolingual skills are eschewed by others.

[ooglymoogly]

5. the new language is already here...it is bushspeak

trickle down in bushspeak means trickle up...war is peace...giving means taking...helping the poor means helping the rich, etc.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Good lord! They have "compassionate" coyotes!

From the article:

Brazilian officials and residents of this region said that unlike smuggling situations in many places, migrants do not pay in advance and do not pay at all if they fail to reach the United States, which greatly reduces the financial risk to potential migrants.

Mr. de Andrade's widow said her husband had offered a small parcel of land he owned as collateral. After he died, in an automobile accident in northern Mexico, the smuggler returned the land.
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Have you EVER heard of this before? Cuban people smugglers have been known to kill their cargo if it appears they're going to be caught, by throwing them in the water and taking off, even knocking them unconscious, if necessary, first.

You undoubtedly remember reading of trucks found in the desert with Mexican immigrants locked inside.

The appearance of kindly smugglers is a true phenomenon.

[Wright Patman]

4. I'd love to see some of the

women in the thong bikinis samba their way up here, but they would immediately be confronted by the religious police.

[northzax]

6. Sweet! Caiparinhas for everyone! (nt)

[peacebuzzard]

7. Daily prime time Brazilian TV has soap opera named "America"

and started the series off with the adventure of the determined leading lady/star that smuggled herself across the Mexican border. Her objective was to find money opportunities.
It is supposed to be an engrossing "novela" but I am not sure of the current theme. Maybe the Commie Pinko Dirtbag can fill us in.

[lateo]

8. Smuggle some brazillian women up here to Indiana please...

:)

[Darkseid69]

9. whoo

They are so sexy...

and psychotically jealous

[Jack The Tab]

13. My wife is Brazillian and both of your statements are true...

..and to all single men of America - learn portuguese as quick as you can. Get yourself down to Brazil and find the girl of your dreams.

Single girls of America - forget about it. Most Brazillian men are chauvenistic (sp?) clods.

[jmm]

17. Hey! I've met a few Mr Right Nows from Brazil

Maybe no Mr Rights but I have yet to find one of those from anywhere

[dr.zoidberg]

12. I agree!

The more brazilian women, the better I say!:*

[Doctor_J]

16. As the quip goes,

Eskimos have 100 different words for snow, Britons have 100 different words for rain, and Brazilians have 100 different words for beautiful woman.

Having been in Rio once, I can attest that they are a beautiful group, regardless of size, shape, and age.

[anotherdrew]

10. take the fbi off the 'file-swappers' and put them on human traffickers?

[barb162]

11. we need a few thousand more border patrol agents on that border

[rustedace]

14. No we don't

If they want to come to the US for a better life or whatever, let them.

[jtb33]

18. LEGALLY

Yes, come if you want to, but do it LEGALLY!

[barb162]

19. no, they don't let illegals come by the millions to their countries

[Blue_Tires]

15. future headline:

"USA odds-on favorite to win 2014 World Cup"


in all seriousness, there is still WAY too much of a wealth imbalance in Brazil...until that gets corrected, expect more to try to better their lives elsewhere

[barb162]

20. the wealth imbalance here is increasing like crazy the last few yrs.