New Type of Immigrant Trying to Cross Mexico's Border to US Expert Says La Prensa
go to original July 15, 2013

University of Michigan anthropology professor Jason DeLeon talks about the Undocumented Migration Project and the goal behind the project. (UM News Service)

The ongoing US deportation program is resulting a "new type of immigrant" trying to cross the border into the United States, namely undocumented foreigners who have lived illegally for many years in the country and "the only way of life they know is that of the United States," Jason De Leon, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan, said.

De Leon heads a project documenting the evolution of immigration between Mexico and the United States through the collection of objects left by immigrants during their trek through the desert on the southern border.

... Before, many people from northern Mexico crossed the border into the United States, but now there are more migrants from central and southern Mexico and from Central American countries, the expert said.

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