Benefits Of A Single Immigrant Worker

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Family in latin america is very high priority, but why would a mother leave their children all the sudden. Well in the children's eyes they think their mother doesn’t love them anymore. Well there are many reasons why they leave. For example in guatemala, a low income household earns about 2 pesos a week, on that income how can one person live, but a whole family they would barely survive, another reason would be to move all of them to america and live a better life.

Supporting a family takes a lot of work, especially for a single mother, moving to america would open up tons of money making opportunities, which means that a single migrant worker can make more money to support her family. The average income for an immigrant worker is more

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