Border Gridlock: 'Alien Commuters' Travel Hours to U.S. Farm Jobs

Article author: 
John Carlos Frey
Article publisher: 
NBC News
Article date: 
25 March 2014
Article category: 
National News
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border
jobs
Congress
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[...] Some 1,000 people have already lined up to cross the border for work in the fields, and soon another 8,000 to 10,000 join the line behind them ...

Norma and Roberto are both green card holders and could live and work in the United States. But they say living in Mexico is the only way to support their family ...

As for that marathon commute, a $300 million proposal to upgrade the port of entry in Mexicali and ease the morning crush was approved by Congress in 2010 — but Congress has yet to allocate any funding.

 Meanwhile, people like Norma Cortez continue to make the long journey to work in U.S. fields ...

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