Meanwhile, the Winston-Salem Journal ponders whether or not the sluggish economy is forcing illegal immigrant to return home.
But where is home?
“I know a bunch of guys who say they are going to go somewhere else because there is no work,” said Jessica Serrano, 16, who works for family at Bella’s Taqueria, a restaurant on Sprague Street. The people thinking of leaving have been working in construction and similar jobs, she said. She said she knows of others who can’t attend college here because they are not in the country legally.
……Serrano said she may eventually go back to her home state of California because she finds life in Winston-Salem slow. But her sister, Flor Lopez, who has three boys under the age of 5 — all born in Winston-Salem — said that life is good here because it is quiet. The sisters and other family members came here from California in 2000.
“Reverse migration” seems to be a bigger “trend” in Charlotte, however:
Reverse migration hasn’t been a huge trend in the Triad, he said, but in Charlotte, a direct bus to Mexico has been running daily on weekdays instead of three days a week as it did formerly. Manrique said that Mecklenburg County’s participation in a program in which sheriff’s deputies check arrestees to see whether they are in the country legally is causing some people to leave. The program is usually called “287(g),” after the law that created it.
