Guest worker program another shell game
Tagged: agriculture, borderPosted on: February 16th, 2007“It’s stunning how little we learn from the events closest to us. Take, for instance, how we got into this situation about guest workers and how leadership avoids the obvious.
A century ago, Mexican workers came across the virtually unknown border to work in this country’s agriculture and on the railroads. Then, as now, we had labor shortages. Then, as now, some U.S. companies were doing land-office business south of the border.”
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