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While Arizona's anti-immigrant law gets all the attention, countries around the world are pursuing tough immigration polices on a scale rarely seen in history.
A young Honduran waits to hop a freight train in Tultitlan, Mexico, hoping to get to the US. Central American migrants have passed through this city for years en route to America. Now many Mexicans resent their presence.
Tultitlan, Mexico
While the migrants draw sympathy from those who give them the coins from their pockets, others just want them to go home. "Some people say, 'Oh the poor migrants,' but not when you have been assaulted as I have," says Blanca Estela Perez, a waitress and cook at a restaurant who says one of her employees was robbed of a week's pay last month. "I do not like them here. Not at all."
It sounds like the sentiments of an exasperated resident of Texas or Arizona on the US-Mexican border. But actually, this is Tultitlan, in central Mexico, and the migrants overrunning this industrial city of smokestacks and sweat come from Central America and beyond.
Read more:
Global doors slam shut on immigrants - CSMonitor.com
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This multi page story exposes the race for people from third world countries to gain access to the "dream" that other built. It also shows just how hypocritical Mexicans are when treating immigrants in Mexico.