“Up north is where we’ve gotten the money for everything – to build houses, to take care of families, to sow in the fields. If they don’t send money, the town stops.” Those are the words of Rosa Gomez Hernandez, a 37-year-old resident of Mexican town San Bartolome Quialana, and whose ability to live and work in Mexico is a direct effect of the work done by Mexicans in the United States.
The Washington Post’s Teo Armus and Karla Gachet write from San Bartolome Quialana to reveal the profound economic impact on the town from production outside of it. This is work done in the United States.
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