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Re:California has the USA’s highest poverty rate, when facto... by xenadu02 on Sunday March 12, 2017 @03:45PM (#13852642)
It takes a certain minimum amount of education and money to attempt the crossing. Poor yokels who try it get caught or die in the desert.

It also takes a minimum amount of ambition; lazy slobs can't be bothered. Fearful people don't want to risk being robbed or spending weeks out of work to end up deported and gaining nothing.

My relative's wife made the crossing because her husband was abusive and beat her and her son; he threatened to kill them both and had the connections to get away with it.

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