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Paisanos cross enmasse to Mexico.
By J. Noel Espinoza, The Brownsville Herald, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 14--Bilme Reyes was chatting and laughing with friends in a parking lot across from the U.S. Customs inspection point at the Veterans Memorial Bridge at Los Tomates.
And although he had to wait a while to cross into Matamoros, the 60-year-old Bilme was at ease after having driven two days straight from Chicago en route to his native Morelia, Michoacan, just west of the Mexican capital city.
Like Reyes, thousands of Mexican nationals, known as paisanos or a massive influx of people who cross the border during the holidays, are returning home with their …
