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Remedios Nino and her sister Lupe Guzman at home with their family in the Back of the Yards on Chicago's South Side. The sisters moved from their home in Acapulco, Mexico to improve their economic conditions. Although they are relatively poor by American standards, the sister have more opportunities than in Mexico where Lupe earned $40 per week cleaning hotel rooms at an Acapulco resort. At least 50 people from the Nino and Guzman families have come north from Mexico to settle in Chicago and other parts of the United States. ..During the past decade, millions of Mexican and Central American migrants have left their homes and families, faced death on the journey to the United States and lived under the specter of criminality once in this country. Despite these obstacles, these resilient immigrants are transforming American culture and posing fundamental questions of justice, citizenship, and labor to the country. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/jon lowenstein)