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...border crossing. Illegals without fake documents often work instead at newly proliferating sweatshops. A recent Government study estimates that as many as 7,000 sweatshops operate in New York City and Los Angeles alone. "Before IRCA, at least we had the semblance of competition in the workplace," says Muzaffar Chishti, an immigration specialist with the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. "Now, many illegal workers are segregated to sweatshops where employers hold them at their mercy...
...that is 85% female, male workers hold virtually all the better- paying jobs. But the power of organization is still a new idea to most immigrant women, and it is one that appeals to those who are especially vulnerable: heads of households. To Chinese women, for example, says Muzaffar Chishti of the ILGWU, "a union is the first stepping-stone into a mainstream American institution...