Immigrants feeling the pain

They are down and out in the United States and homesick for Guatemala. And El Salvador. And Honduras. And Mexico. Tony Castro in the Daily News.

And they would go back without even an American penny in their pocket if only they had enough to get home.

They are the discouraged and disillusioned Central American and Mexican day laborers who, in a sign of how hard times are in this economy, find themselves so broke they can't send much, if any, money back to loved ones they haven't seen for years.