07-20-2008, 03:44 PM
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VALPARAÍSO, Mexico- Less than two months after he was elected, Mayor Alberto Ruiz Flores climbed in his truck and set out on a 26-hour road trip across the border to Southern California, carrying a wish list of public works projects to a backyard barbecue in Oxnard.
The reason? To solicit money from some of the 400,000 Mexicans who abandon their country each year for work in the United States, including half his town in Central Mexico. Those who have left Valparaíso send home an estimated $100,000 a day, as much money in one month as the municipality will spend all year.
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Giraldo Rosales,
Assistant Dean of Students,
Office of the Dean of Students
300 Turner Student Service Bldg, MC-306
610 East John Street Champaign , Illinois 61820
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