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...either to urban areas of his country or to another country altogether. Galbraith contends that mass exodus from impoverished rural areas benefits the rural residents who remain by giving them more land per capita, aids urban areas by providing industrial labor, and even helps more developed countries by providing migrant workers for jobs too menial for their more affluent citizenry...
...leaders had many serious issues to discuss−from oil prices to migrant labor and drug smuggling−and before one session of the talks formally began, Carter asked for ten minutes alone with LÓpez Portillo. The President candidly told his host that it was "counterproductive if we overemphasized our differences, particularly our historical differences, as opposed to our commitment to efforts to resolve them...
Joanne Caplan, one of the show's producers, said she decided to focus on the children of migrant workers in upstate New York. "I heard about Laura, who was going to Harvard, and figured what better way to tell the story than through someone who's been through it," she said...
Caplan said she felt torn between emphasizing the plight of migrant workers in general and "telling the special story of Laura, who now lives in two cultures, not totally belonging to either...
...past three years, however, Ruiz said she has found the direction she wants to take. "Naturally, I want to work with migrant workers, developing effective programs for kids like me who've been shifted from school to school...