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...migrant lives in a capricious world-the work routine is uncertain, there is no protection for periods when work is unavailable, and time off is unpredictable. Migrants are isolated from the outside residential community, and from other migrants with whom they must compete for work. Paradoxically, their daily physical setting offers no real privacy. The "average" migrant family has 6.2 members, lives in 1.9 rooms, and earns $2179 a year, under conditions like the following...
Next is the matter of Mexico's illegal migrant workers. Each year Immigration agents all over the U.S. round up tens of thousands of illegals and send them home again. López Portillo has devised a two-pronged solution to the problem: the U.S. should relax its immigration rules to help this safety valve on Mexico's chronic unemployment, and should encourage American investment in Mexican industry, thereby providing more jobs...
When the worst of the cold struck, some 40 migrant workers were taken from their flimsy camp shacks near Winter Garden by county officials and housed and fed at public expense for six days in a Ramada Inn. In the area as a whole, however, the crisis has heightened rather than eased the traditional tensions between growers and workers. Florida Governor Reubin Askew's success in getting Carter to declare the region a disaster area is resented by the owners in conservative Lake and Orange counties-both of which voted for Gerald Ford in November. They are afraid that...
...workers get between 35? and 55? for each 90-lb. box of oranges, and it takes a man, wife and couple of children a full week of hard work to make $125. The migrant families average only between $2,000 and $7,000 a year. To qualify for regular unemployment compensation, the migrants must be employed for 20 weeks a year. "Trouble with this short season is there's no way you can get your weeks in," complains Willie McCree, 26, who is now making only about $80 a week...
...United Farm Workers (UFW) support group in the Cambridge area is intensifying its efforts to gain Harvard students' support for the union's drive to organize California's migrant laborers, a spokesman for the group said yesterday...