Dependent on Remittances, Poor in Rural Mexico Pray for a Hillary Victory Lizbeth Diaz - Reuters
go to original November 6, 2016

There is great concern in Mexico that a Donald Trump presidential election victory Tuesday could lead to an economic shock for the country. Manuel Bojorquez has more. (CBS Evening News)

In the small southern market town of Molcaxac, 1,050km from the US border, Alicia Villa is praying to God that Republican candidate Donald Trump does not become the next president of the United States.

Over the past two decades, as Mexico’s rural economy stalled, Molcaxac and hundreds of towns like it became dependent on dollars sent by relatives who made the perilous journey north, a lifeline she fears will be cut by a Trump White House.

Villa, 65, said funds sent by a daughter working illegally as a house cleaner in Sacramento, California have supported her family for 12 years because the work she does as receptionist in Molcaxac does not pay enough to make ends meet.

...“Trump says he will kick out everyone who doesn’t have papers and we really need them to be there,” said Villa, adding that she had not seen some family members living in the United States in 20 years.

Trump, a real-estate tycoon who has narrowed the gap with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton ahead of Tuesday’s vote, has vowed to make it harder for illegal immigrants to live and work in the United States, to increase deportations and to limit remittances unless Mexico pays billions for a wall along the nearly 3,200km US-Mexico border.

Such policies would take a heavy toll in Molcaxac, where local authorities say more than 70% of the population lives on remittances sent home by immigrants to the United States, many of them undocumented.

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