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The Mexican village of La Heredad is struggling as U.S. economic woes and immigration policy mean fewer dollars are coming back and deportees are coming home_ --- Jul 27, 2023 12:59 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [‘The Villages are Burning Down.’ Fear and Fire Send Rohingya Fleeing to Bangladesh](/video/ZqoTrdfi/) ### ‘The Villages are Burning Down.’ Fear and Fire Send Rohingya Fleeing to Bangladesh [Argentina’s Economic Woes Are No Anomaly](/video/lx5I6H27/) ### Argentina’s Economic Woes Are No Anomaly [A Village Mourns on the Anniversary of Japan's Earthquake](/video/7SuuhnEA/) ### A Village Mourns on the Anniversary of Japan's Earthquake --- ## Transcript >> In this village of La Heredad in the arid mountains of Central Mexico, [ unk ] Indians have set up writing a local saint and praying for better signs. This community has long sent its strongest men to the United States to find work at the building sites of Florida, and the tobacco fields of Georgia. With the U. S. economy slowing down, and cracked down [ unk ] immigrants, deporting thousands, La Heredad is taking a hit. -[ Foreign language ] >> Deportees like this young man, who asked his name not be used, find it hard to adjust. He tells us he was making $ 500 a week in construction in Clearwater, Florida, but now makes only $ 50 a week working in the cornfields here. -[ Foreign language ] >> And with many others like him returning to this village, the entire community is feeling the pain. Money sent home from El Norte has built almost everything here. The local primary school till this town hall still under construction. Marcelo Perez has four sons working across the border. He says they're struggling to find jobs, and that means they're sending less money home to support their children here. -[ Foreign language ] [ Foreign language ] >> With few options available in Mexico, sneaking to the United States was a way for poor farmers here to dream big. American dollars let them build houses far grounded in the shacks they grew up in. This gated compound was built from hours of manual labor in Florida. But with the slowdown, many houses are not getting finished, including these homes that Marcelo's sons are trying to build. Marcelo's neighbor, Lorenzo Cantera worked for many years in the U. S. He said the deportations were unfair. -[ Foreign language ] >> I asked Lorenzo if he thought there was discrimination against Mexicans. -[ Foreign language ] >> Buenas tardes. >> Fernando Remius is head of the [ unk ] Supreme Council which [ unk ] the Indian rights. He has been part of an effort on both sides that have [ unk ] to push for new guest worker program to allow Mexicans to work in the U. S. with papers. Speaking his native [ unk ] tongue, gave this message to the American president. -[ Foreign language ] [ Foreign language ] -[ Foreign language ] >> With the election year in full swing in the U. S ., Congress is unlikely to take on the issue any time soon. Those praying here will have to put their hopes in the next man to occupy the White House come January. If their prayers are answered, young men will find a legal means to work, and the flair of money will come back to this mountain village. 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