this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2025
1018 points (98.7% liked)

Leopards Ate My Face

7048 readers
210 users here now

Rules:

  1. The mods are fallible; if you've been banned or had a post/comment removed, please appeal.
  2. Off-topic posts will be removed. If you don't know what "Leopards ate my Face" is, try reading this post.
  3. If the reason your post meets Rule 1 isn't in the source, you must add a source in the post body (not the comments) to explain this.
  4. Posts should use high-quality sources, and posts about an article should have the same headline as that article. You may edit your post if the source changes the headline. For a rough idea, check out this list.
  5. For accessibility reasons, an image of text must either have alt text or a transcription in the post body.
  6. Reposts within 1 year or the Top 100 of all time are subject to removal.
  7. This is not exclusively a US politics community. You're encouraged to post stories about anyone from any place in the world at any point in history as long as you meet the other rules.
  8. All Lemmy.World Terms of Service apply.

Also feel free to check out !leopardsatemyface@lemm.ee (also active).

Icon credit C. Brück on Wikimedia Commons.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I mean, it's not so much the fear of deportation so much as the fact that lower wages go farther in Mexico. Most Mexicans who illegally immigrate do so simply because it makes economic sense. If the wages were so low that it didn't make economic sense to them, then they would simply return to Mexico voluntarily.

[–] TheodorAlforno@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

Is it still Mexicans that come over or has it changed to people from even poorer countries like Venezuela or Honduras?

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You kind of lose that economic advantage when you're not living in Mexico anymore. Plus a lot of people that come here don't have a life to go back to and likely sunk everything they had into getting here.

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

A lot of immigrants accept a low quality of life here so they can provide a better one back in their home country for their family.