Donald Trump Is Handing a Windfall to Mexican Immigrant Families
- Tough campaign rhetoric shakes up the currency market
- As peso plunges, immigrants rush to reap the rewards
Trump's Rhetoric Shakes Up Currency Market
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Mention the name Donald Trump to Gerardo Lozano, and it doesn’t take long for him to explode. “I can only imagine,” he says, the anger building in his voice, “what it will be like if he becomes president.”
Lozano, 58, short and wiry with thick glasses and a black-and-gray “TEXAS” ball cap, is an undocumented Mexican immigrant. For 15 years now, he’s worked in the U.S., the last two of them as a day laborer in Plano, just outside Dallas. He does a little roofing, some landscaping, plumbing, whatever comes his way. On a good day, he can pocket $150.