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Recently-deported Mexican immigrant Jose Manuel,
42, outside an aid station July 27, 2010 in Nogales, Mexico, just
across the border from Arizona. Manuel lived in San Mateo, California
for 10 years.
(John Moore/Getty)
Arizona's
controversial immigration law will come into effect tomorrow, unless a
federal judge says otherwise. We take a look across the border to Loma
Buenavista, Mexico. Sixty percent of the town's population is thought
to have crossed the border into Arizona. The 800-person town depends on
residents' relatives in the U.S. to send money back home; if their
relatives leave, the town stands to be significantly affected by this
new law.
Inma Gil Rosendo, Mexico correspondent for BBC World, has been talking to residents of Loma Buenavista, and she shares what they have to say.
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