As if the indignities of the journey are not enough, more indignities await the immigrant after he or she has successfully navigated a way to the Rio Grande River. As if the suffering of the journey and the arrival in a strange land are not enough, more destructiveness awaits the migrants in terms of family and marriage. Many marriages and families are disrupted permanently by immigration. Husbands and wives never find each other again, or worse, the one who traveled takes up with another woman or man as they tire of loneliness and indignities. Brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles are separated, never to see each other again.
Whole villages are without fathers in some countries.
Since they are dying to work, they will go with anyone anywhere with the offer of employment. How often are they disappointed as the employer abandons them and is nowhere to be found. Casa Juan Diego could use a full-time person just following up on immigrants cheated of their pay. Recruitment of women to work in cantinas is fierce. A cantina job is not a waitress job.