During the Larry O’Connor Show, Larry discussed Brittny Mejia’s latest article in the LA Times, Leaving America: With shaky job prospects and Trump promising crackdowns, immigrants return to Mexico with U.S.-born children. An excerpt of the article is below:

he girl clutched the goodbye card her friend Emily handed her that morning.

“All thou we’ll be a few miles apart you allways be my best firend.”

Luz Madrigal, 6, sat in the back seat of the car with her little brother Alejandro, heading south to the U.S.-Mexico border and a new home more than a thousand miles away.

Faced with diminishing job prospects and a president who promised to make life harder for them, Luz’s mother and father — immigrants in the country illegally — decided to go back to Mexico. [Read More]

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