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...definition, guest workers are tremendously vulnerable. And of all the steps in the process, none is more ripe for abuse than the recruiting of workers back in their home countries. Baldemar Velasquez, whose Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) has been the union representing Eury's workers since 2004, says Eury recruits cleanly. But freelance agents who work with other recruiters and employers are not nearly so scrupulous. Peasants, lured at times by false promises about what they can earn, are being charged as much as $2,000 to get on recruiters' lists for U.S. positions. If the Senate plan does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Guest Worker Program Work? | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

DIED. Freddy Fender, 69, three-time Grammy winner who began his career as "El Bebop Kid," singing Elvis songs in Spanish, and in 1975 topped the pop and country charts with Before the Next Teardrop Falls; of lung cancer; in Corpus Christi, Texas. Born Baldemar Huerta to migrant parents in South Texas, he based his stage name on the brand of his guitar and later joined two critically acclaimed Tex-Mex bands, the Texas Tornados and Los Super Seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 23, 2006 | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...BALDEMAR VELASQUEZ President, Farm Labor Organizing Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Forum: This Is A Battle For America's Identity | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

Shaving the deficit even further, junior Baldemar Mejia sacrificed home a run to make it 8-5 in the fourth...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, | Title: Baseball Pounds MIT, 27 - 5, in Soldiers Field Finale | 5/1/1997 | See Source »

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