For the governing class, immigrants become the solution. They leave. They reduce the political and social pressure ... they even reduce the costs of public works projects. |
The women don't stay anymore because they don't want to repeat the sad history of their mothers, who stayed home, in charge of the family, in charge of the family plot, pregnant, having kids who, when they get to be 15, 16, 17 years old, leave for the north too. |