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Before planting and harvest
time in the United States it has been common for local recruiters to fan
out across Mexico’s parched countryside to sign up guest workers. The
recruiters charge the Mexicans hundreds of dollars, sometimes more, for
the job and the temporary visa that comes with it.
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THE NEW YORK
TIMES
La División Para
Los Trabajadores del Campo de Ayuda Legal en las noticias. Recientemente
en un articulo en el periódico reconocido en los Estados Unidos, The New
York Times.
Para un campesino tailandés
que, dedicado al cultivo de arroz, ganaba 500 dólares al año, la oferta
del reclutador resultaba difícil de resistir: tres años de trabajo en
granjas de Carolina del Norte que le redituarían más de 30 veces lo que
ganaba en casa.
VER HISTORIA COMPLETA UNIVERSO/THE NEW YORK
TIMES
Guestworker programs in the United States
Guestworkers who come to the United States are routinely cheated out of
wages; forced to mortgage their futures to obtain low-wage, temporary
jobs; held virtually captive by employers who seize their documents;
forced to live in squalid conditions; and denied medical benefits for
injuries, according to a new report released by the Center today.
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SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER
As a farmer in
Thailand, Muangmol Asanok often made less than $500 a year.
So he couldn't
believe his good fortune when a recruiter came to his village offering
three years of farm work in North Carolina at a rate of more than $8 an
hour.
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THE NEWS & OBSERVER
The farmworkers union that took on Mount Olive Pickle Co. is starting a
new push in North Carolina, this time focusing on farmworkers' deaths.
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THE NEWS & OBSERVER
Lori Elmer is a staff attorney with Raleigh-based Legal Aid of North
Carolina's Farmworker Unit. She recently filed two cases on behalf of
foreign nationals who say they were promised agricultural work under the
H-2A visa federal guest worker program but were held in squalid
conditions against their will, never able to earn back the money they
spent to get here.
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NORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT WEEKLY
Trying to use legal foreign labor and still
turn a profit has become the top challenge for tobacco growers in Person
County and elsewhere across the nation.
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THE COURIER =TIMES
Guest workers sues companies over pay. Armenio
Pablo-Calmo, a Guatemalan national, spent six winters as a tree planter
in the pine forests of the South as part of a guest worker program that
is required under federal law to pay him the prevailing wage for such
jobs.
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USA TODAY
Low Pay and Broken Promises Greet Guest Workers.
To a rice farmer from
Thailand making
$500 a year, the recruiter’s pitch was hard to resist — three years of
farm work in North Carolina that would pay more than 30 times as much as
he earned at home
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THE NEW YORK
TIMES
MEDIA RELEASES
February 26, 2007
Lawsuits reveal new
labor trafficking scam on Thai and Indonesian nationals
(Raleigh, NC) – Twenty-two
Thai and three Indonesian workers recently filed two separate lawsuits
against North Carolina employers and Asian labor brokers. The workers
say that their employers and labor brokers deliberately lied to them and
the U.S. government.
Ruling benefits Ag-Mart
State vows to
still pursue case involving pesticides
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THE NEWS & OBSERVER
Tell Colorado's Governor That Slavery
is Illegal. Say "NO" to Prison Labor in the Fields.
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UNITED FARM WORKERS
Mexican father finds opportunity in NC
Guillermo Alonso Camacho started working in North Carolina tobacco fields to pay
for his wife’s diabetes medicine. His Mexican salary wouldn’t cover the $100 weekly cost. So, about a decade ago, he began splitting the year between his home in
the state of Nayarit and a farm worker camp outside Dunn, North Carolina.
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FAYETTEVILLE (North Carolina) OBSERVER
Who Will Work the Farms?
By EDUARDO PORTER
KINSTON, N.C. — In the plainspoken manner common to her fellow farmers, Faylene Whitaker has a message for members of Congress struggling to overhaul the
nation's immigration law.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Every Christmas,
little Katie Alvarez asks her daddy for two trees, one for her formal
living room, and one for the family room
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EMAGAZINE.COM
N.C. farming
has a labor crisis Moises Torres Ramirez came to the United States
looking more like and urban cowboy than a farmhand
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GREENSBORO
NEWS & RECORD
Special report about modern slavery
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THE FULL STORY Palm Beach Post, Florida
A Shameful Harvest.
Immigrants farmworkers are one step away - and sometimes less from
slavery
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THE AMERICAN PROSPECT
Un Reporte de Univision, con trabajadores en
Florida.Dejan a sus pueblos y familias buscando la prosperidad en
Estados Unidos. Pero al llegar se encuentran atrapados, ya sea en las
calles como trabajadores sexuales o como obreros en los campos. Jorge
Ramos realizó una investigación especial sobre el tema: "Encadenados en
Silencio"
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UNIVISION
Mexicanos en la Lista Negra.
Los jornaleros con visa H-2A son apenas una pequeña porción de la
mexicanizada agricultura estadunidense, que emplea entre 2 y 2.5
millones de trabajadores nacidos en territorio nacional. Marginales en
número, representan el modelo que muchos poderosos preferirían en
Estados Unidos. El esquema es sencillito: que vayan, trabajen allá con
los menores derechos posibles y regresen a México al terminar las
cosechas.
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LA JORNADA
The historic agreement between the
Toledo-based Farm Labor Organizing Committee, North Carolina
growers, and the Mt. Olive Pickle Co. Inc.
FLOC WEBSITE
The North Carolina Growers Association,
which represents 1,000 farmers, signed a union contract yesterday
covering 8,500 guest workers from Mexico
FLOC WEBSITE
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