Some Mexican residents in Texas feel unwelcome, return home

[Judi Lynn]

BY OLIVIA P. TALLET
Houston Chronicle


THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS

A year ago, Perla Soto wrote a guidebook to help Mexicans coming to The Woodlands understand how things work in America.

In the introduction, she explained why so many of her wealthy countrymen were drawn to life 30 miles north of Houston.

The Houston Chronicle reports there was the allure of large, beautiful homes caressed by the shadows of slash pines and bald cypresses. All those parks and golf courses and dozens of lakes and ponds. Good schools. And few worries about crime in what people jokingly call "la colonia más segura de México," or Mexico's safest town.

Soto and "los woodlandeses," as they are called in Spanish, have boosted the area's economy, spending billions on homes and several hundred million more on new businesses, taxes, cars and other goods in the last 10 years, according to Viva The Woodlands Magazine. More than 10,000 Mexicans now live there, representing about 10 percent of the population.

But these days, the immigration pattern is reversing. Fewer Mexicans are coming to live in The Woodlands, and more are moving back to Mexico.

More:
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/national-business/article153617904.html

[mhw]

1. Texas Repubs are dirt stupid for their actions towards their Mexican population.

They are our friends, neighbors, co-workers & caregivers.
I am so damned ashamed of this State & this country for the cruelty shown to all.

It truly breaks the heart.

[Vogon_Glory]

2. The article didn't seem to be talking about shirt-sleeve Mexicans

but about prosperous, monied Mexicans who'd chosen to buy homes away from the crime and violence found south of the border. Trust the "law and order" and "pro-business" xenophobic Texas Republicans to make such people feel unwelcome.