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Posted on: November 21st, 2005
Filed Under: [ Hispanic News ]
Tags: border, latin america
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“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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