Word: migrant
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...tends to divide the council in a negative way,” he says. “It tends to strain people’s friendships.” Barkley says he remembers a time when issues such as whether dining hall should serve grapes farmed by migrant workers dominated the council’s docket...
...time in Latin America recently, and you can see it there even more strongly. Ecuador, for instance, sends a huge portion of its workforce abroad ? it's a source of income and it also relieves their unemployment problem. They are now very worried about their migrant laborers becoming unemployed...
...about pulling back the welcome mat. But doing so requires an abrupt shift in the agency's mission, which for the past decade has been informed by conflicting mandates. On the one hand, the U.S. has made a show of plugging up the Mexican border to keep out migrant workers and drug smugglers. Yet it gives much less public scrutiny to the millions who enter the country by air. Once foreigners reach American soil unlawfully, the INS, under pressure from industries that depend on cheap labor, does next to nothing to throw them out. The job of tracking the more...
...Throughout Crossing Over he asserts that during certain months, the border patrol is lenient when farmers need cheap labor. However, during other times of the year, the border patrol’s tactics can be so vigilant and irresponsible as to cause the death of three Mexican migrants. Although it was not one of his original intentions, Martínez wants the book to allow Americans to see that, “even though [Mexican migrants] lack papers, they’ve suffered like other Americans.” Martínez, whom many of the Cherán residents...
...waiting in the wings. All you have to have is unemployment going up." Though Mexican labor statistics are murky, Fox admits that the country lost 200,000 jobs this year when it should have been creating 1.5 million. The country thus needs the safety valve--and dollar remittances--of migrant labor...