This is from the Miami Herald. This piece echoes what I have seen in other news media, about immigrants legal or not returning home or just leaving the US.
More immigrants choose to leave U.S., go home
Tired of making little money, feeling lonely and fearing arrest, more Latin American immigrants are voluntarily returning home.
There was no one thing that caused Hector Salinas to pack his bags and give up for good on the trials of life as an illegal immigrant in South Florida.
But the reasons he enumerates are echoed by increasing numbers of Latin American immigrants, both legal and not, who appear to be souring on their job prospects and going home:
It was the scant money he made at a menial restaurant job, Salinas said, just enough for food and rent, with barely anything left for his family in Mexico — the reason he came in the first place.
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