Mexican Wives Ask U.S. to Deport Deadbeat Husbands Back to Mexico

"The women of Tecalpulco, Mexico, want the U.S. government to enforce its immigration laws because they want to force their husbands to come back home from working illegally in the United States. They have created an English-language Web page where they identify themselves as the 'wetback wives' and broadcast their pleas, both to their men and to the U.S. government," the Washington Times reports. "In poignant public messages to their husbands, the women talk about their children who feel abandoned, and worry that the men have forsaken their families for other women and for the American lifestyle. 'You said you were only going to Arizona to get money for our house, but now you have been away and did not come back when your sister got married,' one woman writes to a man named Pedro. 'Oh how I worry that you have another woman! Don't you love me? You told me you love me.'"

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