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13 de Abril, 2007
Lavish Promises
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UNCLE SAM IS A PIMP.
Overseas recruiters lure guest workers to the U.S. with lavish promises of permanent residency, high-paying jobs and better living conditions, charging thousands of dollars in “processing fees.” Guest workers are usually deeply in debt by the time they arrive in the U.S., where the companies that hire them often charge additional fees for boarding, food and expenses.Those companies have an incentive to charge by the day, because they save money on taxes when they deduct living expenses from an employee’s wages instead of paying an equivalent sum to the employees and letting them secure their own housing and food.
Home of the Slave...Land of the Fee?
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Comentarios (5)
Rafael dijo:
And yet it is easier to blame the migrant worker than the companies and government that hires them for all your troubles and woes.
Palabras por Rafael spat forth on el 13 de Abril, 2007 at 11:21 AM
Deoridhe dijo:
This makes me feel physically ill. Those poor men. I can't believe people are actually saying that grown men should be required to stay in a place with no privacy and no option of moving out because the company saves tax money, or that it's ok to lie to them to get them over to the US.
It's just so ....wrong. On so many levels. And foul on so many levels. How do these people live with themselves?
Palabras por Deoridhe spat forth on el 13 de Abril, 2007 at 01:14 PM
Rafael dijo:
And then when ICE comes then get carted away, throw into Gulags and the companies turn around and do it all over again.
Palabras por Rafael spat forth on el 13 de Abril, 2007 at 02:35 PM
OZinWisconsin dijo:
Nothing to see here. Please keep moving.
Thank you.
Palabras por OZinWisconsin spat forth on el 13 de Abril, 2007 at 04:01 PM
Richard at Mex Files dijo:
I think there's a technical term for this... "peonage".
It looks like we are going to have some kind of neo-bracero program for the kinds of immigrants who are just coming to put in a year or two "workin' for the yanqui dollar". The devil in the details is enforcing labor standards and contractual obligations. If it were up to me, the hiring companies would have to contract with the unions before they were elgible to apply for guest workers. The big breakdown in the "old" bracero program (and, right now, with NO program) was there is no legal way for workers to file grievances, and no effective oversight of working and living conditions ... where the fuck was the Department of Labor ??? -- oh, this was in Mississippi and Bush is in the White House. Never mind!
Palabras por Richard at Mex Files spat forth on el 13 de Abril, 2007 at 06:03 PM