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...businessmen dispute that conclusion. Indeed, they argue that the illegals help preserve and even create jobs in the U.S. Especially in industries facing competition from low-cost imports, these experts say, the availability of immigrant labor can make the difference between survival and bankruptcy. It is claimed that the garment industry in Florida thrives largely because of the influx of Hispanics. Says Warren Henderson, an official with the Florida department of commerce: "Without an abundant pool of willing workers at a relatively low cost, many industries will be forced to shut down entirely or move offshore...
...School is too expensive and they are too tired after work. Those without skills find jobs as maids, pick vegetables and fruits in the fields or clean up litter along roadways. A step up are jobs as waitresses or in factories. Sweatshops are coming back, both in the old garment trade, still a prime source of entry jobs, and in the new, high-tech electronics industries. Within the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, which has a membership that is 85% female, male workers hold virtually all the better- paying jobs. But the power of organization is still a new idea...
...collar jobs at home for blue-collar jobs here, the drop in status is offset by the satisfaction of a significant rise in income and the hope of moving on. Anna Cruz-Vasquez is 56 and divorced. She came alone from the Dominican Republic in 1977 and with a garment-industry job that has never paid % more than $130 a week has managed to send for four of her six children. "I lived on 150 pesos ($48) a month in Santo Domingo," she says. "This is paradise. I am working. I am earning money. I am driving. I am buying...
...grew up in a sweatshop owned by her parents, where women's blouses were made. "When I was little, we would work until 1 in the morning, then sleep on the cutting table," she says. This year she wrote her senior thesis at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., on garment workers. "This is my parents' dream," she says. "This is America. America gives rights to women that would be unattainable if we were back in our homeland...
...just the look that they're after. Oh, you know it all too well. It's the khaki pants, the shoes from L.L. Bean (a demigod to this crowd), gray wool socks (if any), a wrinkled oxford shirt under a white-dotted blue sweater (the most popular garment on campus), topped off with a dungaree jacket (collar turned up). Combined with name-brand shades (Vuarnets or Ray Bans or imitations thereof) replete with neckstrap, this typical B.C. student is prepared for any potential preppie crisis...