Word: wage
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...enter the U.S. most pay $250 to $350 each to smuggler-guides called coyotes, who sometimes rob or beat them. If they elude the INS, the immigrants usually can find jobs in an expanding Sunbelt economy. If employers sometimes pay them less than the $3.35 an hour minimum wage-well, they still earn substantially more than they could in Mexico, where the minimum wage is the equivalent of 55? an hour for those lucky enough to find work...
...opponents of Simpson-Mazzoli, however, have been unable to offer any convincing alternative. Some contend that tighter enforcement of wage-and-hour laws in the U.S. and beefing up the INS border patrols could slow the tide of aliens. That seems unlikely; Cornelius, for one, believes that only "fullscale militarization" of the U.S.-Mexican border, a step that nobody advocates, could do the job. Others contend the real solution would be to build up the Mexican economy so that it could offer good jobs to those now crossing the border. But that is wishful thinking: American voters...
...week's end the violence had not yet subsided, and the Indian army extended its 24-hour curfew in most of the northwestern state of Punjab. Several hundred Bhindranwale loyalists who had managed to escape the siege of the temple continued to wage hit-and-run attacks against troops in Amritsar. They also looted shops, set fires and killed civilians. An additional 100 Sikh extremists surfaced in Rajasthan, a state near the Pakistani border, where they called upon Sikh members of the army to rebel. Some of them did defect, while other Sikhs apparently donned army uniforms...
...tuberculosis and gastrointestinal disease. Mexican officials have been known to beat, rape or otherwise abuse the refugees; often the officials extort bribes in exchange for a promise not to send refugees back across the border. Landowners pay Guatemalans $1 a day for their labor, vs. a Mexican minimum daily wage...
...pact was another step in Alfonsín's drive to maintain national unity at a time when the country is facing an annual inflation rate of 568% and growing labor unrest. Some 400,000 miners, bus drivers, waterworks employees and metal-and grain-workers are currently demanding wage increases...