Jul 17, 2012

In Mexico, Central American immigrants under fire

CNN: Tultitlan, Mexico - Neighbors on this tiny, sun-soaked street know each other's names. They pray together at a church with stained-glass windows that they can see from their front steps.

But for years, they say, immigrants have been pushing their community apart. Residents here say they stopped feeling safe when strangers started lingering on street corners and leering at locals. They created neighborhood watch patrols to keep crime in check.

"It's not that we're against immigrants," Osvaldo Espinosa says. "We just want them to get rid of that house."

It's the kind of complaint heard often these days in small-town America or on blocks in big U.S. cities struggling with a flood of foreign residents. But this house is in Mexico, where activists warn that fierce anti-immigrant sentiment in some places has become just as strong as it is north of the border. Read more.

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