Most Mexican Immigrants in New Study Gave Up Jobs to Take Their Chances in U.S.
A report about the work lives of recent Mexican immigrants in seven cities across the United States suggests that they typically traded jobs in Mexico for the prospect of work here, despite serious bouts of unemployment, job instability and poor wages. Unlike the stereotype of jobless Mexicans heading north, most of the immigrants had been employed in Mexico, the report found.
See "Most Mexican Immigrants in New Study Gave Up Jobs to Take Their Chances in U.S.", Nina Bernstein, The New York Times, December 6, 2005