Recession, enforcement driving illegal immigrants to leave U.S.

This article tells what has been happening with illegal immigrants who worked here, as the recession progressed. And what is left after the workers leave here. - - Donna Poisl

By MARISA TAYLOR, McClatchy Newspapers

For 10 years, Ezequiel Gonzalez and his wife, Lupe, feared that their lives as illegal immigrants in America would be discovered.

One spring evening two years ago, it finally happened. Immigration agents detected Ezequiel working illegally at a local glass company here and ordered him deported to Mexico. Left on her own, Lupe packed up their few belongings and prepared their four children, ages 8 through 15, for the journey to a country they barely knew.

Back in their colonial town in central Mexico, the couple now struggle to support themselves.
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