AMERICA/UNITED STATES - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “La valigia con lo spago”: Think of the people who cross the desert crawling on their belly...they avoid something that wounds their family and they are willing to die to give them a better life!

AMERICA/UNITED STATES – MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “La valigia con lo spago”: Think of the people who cross the desert crawling on their belly...they avoid something that wounds their family and they are willing to die to give them a better life!

Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “I have lived here for 20 years. I am married and a daughter who is a US citizen, and a husband who is a US resident,” says a woman working in a public university. “I have been able to work here with the H1B Visa. It will expire in approximately 1 year. They look at me as if I should go back home. They disregard the fact that we work hard, making our own in the world without anyone's help, but as the law decrees, I will have to leave. But this is my country, where I have grown. And yet, they make you feel like a criminal. And just think - these people come crawling on their belly. It is no walk in the park. They do it because they avoid something that wounds their families and are willing to die to give them a better life! I do not believe this makes them different. In any case, it makes them more human, because they are only trying to find a better life for themselves...and for their families.” (Luca De Mata) (television program trailer “La valigia con lo spago”: a series of 4 programs: an investigation into migratory flows and new slavery in the world: Rai Uno July 20th , 2nd evening feature). (Agenzia Fides 16/7/2009)