I think that people would want to leave their country in secret would be to find a better life for their family and escape poverty. Mexico has always been poor and the United States has been viewed as a place where you can do anything you dream of. Celia says that the factory she worked at was always poor and that she dreamed of a life in the United states where no works more then 4 hours a day "We lived in a big grey building with windows so small you couldn't put your head outside" (farmer 141). If I had the choice between a life of poverty and a life of wealth I would take the wealth. This would be the driving force as to why so many people cross into the american border in the book and in real life. Most people in Mexico live in poverty and in fear of the drug wars ravaging the country and this is another reason people would try to sneak past the border.
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