Migrant forest workers caught in web of exploitation
Tagged: border, latin america“Unlike millions of Latin Americans who cross the border illegally to work in El Norte, the pineros toiling on federal land in Idaho were in this country legally, part of a small army of foreign residents who fill low-paying, non-farm jobs under a little-known federal guest worker program.
Yet the 10,000 or so forest guest workers, who plant trees across the nation and thin fire-prone woods out West as part of the Bush administration’s Healthy Forests Initiative, have hardly been treated with hospitality.”
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Posted on: November 21st, 2005Curation from Tomás
Filed Under: 1. Hispanic News
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