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Old 02-15-2006, 05:04 PM   #7
MaggieL
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translation table:

"undocumented immigrant American" --> illegal alien
"jobs nobody wants" --> jobs currently underpriced out of legal market by illegal labor supply (see: "onshore offshoring")
"criminalize"--> leaning on the users as well as the dealers

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The strike was designed to give undocumented "shadow workers," a population typically on tiptoe, an opportunity to show their faces, their numbers, and their economic contributions to the region.
Economic contribution to the region? Speaking of "offshoring"...
Quote:
"I came here only to work," said Garcia, the factory worker. He sends at least a fifth of his $1,000 in monthly wages to his family, sugar-cane farmers in Veracruz.
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