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While I support the right of strawberry pickers to work in humane conditions, their unionization is a complex issue. Many migrant workers are Mexican citizens who are in this country on seasonal work permits. Whether they deserve guaranteed health care at the expense of the American tax-payer is not clear. Further, any unionization is bound to have far-reaching economic consequences. Harvard students should decide on an individual basis whether or not to support the goals of the strawberry pickers. More importantly, HDS does not deserve the right to dictate whether or not students can actually consume strawberries...
...Western Europe. In India, researchers estimate that by the year 2000, anywhere from 15 million to 50 million people could be HIV positive. Half the prostitutes in Bombay are already infected, and doctors report that the disease is spreading along major truck routes and into rural areas, as migrant workers bring the virus home. In Central and Eastern Europe, countries that had largely escaped the epidemic are seeing an explosion in the number of cases, mainly among IV drug users and their heterosexual contacts...
...Latinos in the United States, considering the fact that Latinos will be the largest minority by the year 2020. Our contributions to this nation have a long history. From the time when Latino soldiers fought alongside American revolutionaries, to Cesar Chavez's struggle for the just treatment of migrant farm workers in the 1960s, to today's young, motivated Latinos marching for political recognition, we have actively participated in the shaping of American cultural and political dynamics. Our history and potential for success in this country should be recognized at all levels, from national politics to college campuses...
They are required to put in long hours of hard work for next to nothing, often in hostile conditions, always under the intense scrutiny of their bosses. They are imported from faraway places, then isolated from the rest of the population and ultimately exploited for their sweat. Migrant farm workers? Child seamstresses for Kathie Lee? No, we're talking here about major college-football players...
Here in the heart of the American Dustbowl, most of the residents work as laborers in the surrounding corn and soybean fields, in the beef-and pork-packing industries or in farm-equipment manufacturing. A group of 20 to 30 migrant farm workers, mostly undocumented Mexican immigrants, come for two months each summer to work in the corn fields, town officials...