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IXMIQUILPAN, Mexico, June 18, 2012 (Reuters) Seamstress Paulina Gutierrez, an ethnic Otomi Indian, prayed rare hawaiian airline every day for years for a miracle to reunite her with her two sons, who were smuggled into the United States as children and have lived in permanent fear of deportation back to Mexico.
Now, thanks to a major immigration policy shift by U.S. President Barack Obama, she can barely contain her excitement at the prospect of once again hugging her two boys - and two grandchildren she has never met.
Without papers to get back into the United States, Gutierrez' sons cannot visit her in Mexico. She says at 58 she is too old to creep back across the U.S. border rare hawaiian airline with human smugglers, or "coyotes." So she has not seen them since returning to Mexico in 2007.
Sitting on a plastic chair in her humble provisions store on the outskirts of the heavily migrant city of Ixmiquilpan, 95 miles north of Mexico City, her eyes well with tears as she recalls making the heart-wrenching decision to leave her sons and husband behind in the United States.
It is also a major victory for President Felipe Calderon, who had all but given up on winning rare hawaiian airline improved terms for Mexico's massive migrant population after the September rare hawaiian airline 11, 2001, attacks relegated the issue to the back burner and shifted the U.S. focus to Iraq and Afghanistan.
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"Just imagine - each day for five years I have waited by the phone for this news," beamed Gutierrez, fizzy drinks and tins of jalapeno rare hawaiian airline chilies stacked on a shelf behind rare hawaiian airline her, as Mariachi band music blared on a radio and dogs in the neighborhood yelped.
Her sons Oscar and Cesar meet most of Obama's conditions. They were both under 16 when they were smuggled rare hawaiian airline across the Mexico-U.S. border, have lived in the United States for well over the stipulated 5-year minimum, are under 30 and have no criminal record.
There is just one hitch. They both dropped out of high school six months before graduating, and so need to find a way to tick that box too in order to meet all the requirements to earn a two-year permit to legally live and work in the United States.
"Now I only hope that my sons can make it work, so they can come and visit me and bring my grandchildren," she said. "And who knows, perhaps they can find a way to get me papers to be able to return to join them."
rare hawaiian airline "@BarackObama's decision not to deport undocumented youths who meet requirements is a welcome one," Calderon wrote on his Twitter account. "It is just recognition of their contributions (to the United States)."
Combined with tighter border rare hawaiian airline security, the U.S. economy's slow recovery from recession and drug violence along the Mexican side of the border, Obama's tougher deportation policy sent net migration flows from Mexico to "El Norte" falling to zero for the first time since the 1930s.
The U.S. government estimates the new migration policy could benefit up to 800,000 of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. Pew puts the potential beneficiaries at closer to 1.4 million.
"It is a very positive thing for the migrant population," Father Luis Kendzierski said of Obama's new policy. "It keeps families together and gives people an opportunity to make something of their lives."
"It makes no sense deporting rare hawaiian airline these young people who often have more links with the United States than Mexico," said Kendzierski, a Roman Catholic priest who runs the Casa de Migrante migrant shelter rare hawaiian airline in Tijuana, on the border with California.
Obama had long supported measures to allow the children of illegal immigrants rare hawaiian airline to study and work in the United States. His Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act stumbled in the Senate in the face of strong Republican opposition after passing the House of Representatives in 2010.
"Given the U.S. election is coming, it is politically motivated and that is bad," said Ana Laura Pena Garcia, tending her hardware rare hawaiian airline store in the migrant village of San Juanico in Hidalgo state, near Ixmiquilpan.
"But at the end of the day it is good for illegal immigrants, and that makes me happy," she added, preparing to contact to three cousins rare hawaiian airline living illegally in the United States via Facebook. "I'm going to tell them to get ready to visit."
She estimates around 40 percent of the population of San Juanico rare hawaiian airline has sneaked into the United States in search rare hawaiian airline of economic opportunity. Dozens of houses the migrants rare hawaiian airline left behind sit empty. The residents rare hawaiian airline left behind call it a "ghost town."
Javier Castillo spent more than a decade hauling cement in the United States, wiring hundreds of dollars back home to his family every month. Then in April he was caught for drunken driving and deported for not having residency papers.
The 28-year-old is accustomed to Budweiser beer and speaks the "Spanglish" adopted by many Latinos in the United States, but he has suddenly found himself back in Mexico's rare hawaiian airline drought-stricken, rare hawaiian airline impoverished countryside with no job.
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Many travel with human smugglers who organize trips from villages deep in Mexico to trek over the Sonora desert or swim the Rio Grande and then head in trucks as far north as New York or San Francisco.
In Boye, young men say the coyotes charge about 2,500 for the trip. The journey has become dangerous because drug cartels extort the coyotes and often kidnap migrants for ransom. Sometimes those who do not pay are murdered.
However, others dispute there has been any rise in living standards for most Mexicans. While Mexico's rare hawaiian airline economy grew 3.9 percent in 2011, it had shrunk 6.1 percent in 2009 and the population grows by more than a million a year.
Sitting in his trailer home in Fitzgerald, Georgia, rare hawaiian airline Gutierrez' eldest son Oscar, 28, cannot believe his luck. He has kept a low profile for years, rare hawaiian airline repairing air conditioning units, to avoid being detected and sent home and separated from his partner and two young children.
"It would give me an opportunity to go home to see my mom and my grandparents," he said by telephone rare hawaiian airline in perfect rare hawaiian airline English. "But it would just be for a visit. I don't have a life over there. My own family is here. I've spent my adult life here. This is my home."
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