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About 10,000 guest workers, mostly Mexican and Guatemalan, have temporary visas to plant trees and clear brush on private land or tracts owned by the U.S. Forest Service. Called pineros because many work in remote pine forests, the workers are recruited by private contractors with promises of high wages. But many pineros arrive in the U.S. as much as $2,000 in debt for travel and visa expenses--costs the courts have ruled must be borne by employers. "Often recruiters make them leave the deed to their home with a company representative as collateral to ensure they stay...
...legality. Outraged by the House’s plan to increase the hardships faced by South American immigrant workers, De Beausset decided to take action.“I always wanted to try to migrate to get closer to what it’s like to be an average Guatemalan, an average person in this world,” he says. Hoping to publicize the plight of ordinary Guatemalans, De Beausset hatched a plan to document the journey immigrants face from Guatemala into the United States. Getting to the U.S. would mean hiring a pricey smuggler, and weeks of jumping...
...experience at the hands of smugglers—will end today with a speech at Georgetown University. The pro-immigrant movement is bigger than amnesty, workers’ rights, and equal access to education; this movement is an declaration of the universal human value. In the words of popular Guatemalan singer, Ricardo Arjona, it is an affirmation of the “universal visa” granted and taken away upon birth and death by “the consulate of the sky.” Past social movements have attacked the inequalities associated with being born of a different...
Kyle A. De Beausset ’08, a Guatemalan native who is taking the year off from Harvard, was in Mexico researching the experiences of illegal immigrants who travel from places like Guatemala, through Mexico, and eventually to the United States...
...learn that his new film sounds warnings straight out of liberal Hollywood's bible. Apocalypto, which Gibson loosely translates from the Greek as "a new beginning," was inspired in large part by his work with the Mirador Basin Project, an effort to preserve a large swath of the Guatemalan rain forest and its Maya ruins. Gibson and his rookie cowriter on Apocalypto, Farhad Safinia, were captivated by the ancient Maya, one of the hemisphere's first great civilizations, which reached its zenith about A.D. 600 in southern Mexico and northern Guatemala. The two began poring over Maya myths of creation...