Most weren't buying, however.
The MexicoBlog of the CIP Americas Program monitors and analyzes international press on Mexico with a focus on the US-backed War on Drugs in Mexico and the struggle in Mexico to strengthen the rule of law, justice and protection of human rights. Relevant political developments in both countries are also covered.
Showing posts with label migrant workers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label migrant workers. Show all posts
Dec 17, 2014
Company stores trap Mexican farmworkers in a cycle of debt
LA Times: The farmworkers lined up right after work, clutching crumpled pesos. The shelves before them were stacked high with staples: corn flour and beans, diapers and Mexican sweet bread.
Most weren't buying, however.
Dionisia Bustamante handed 1,000 pesos, about $70, to Israel Gastelum, owner of the company store at Campo Isabeles. Read more.
Most weren't buying, however.
Apr 7, 2014
U.S., Mexico Agree to Tell Migrant Mexican Workers in U.S. About Their Rights
Latin American Herald Tribune
April 7, 2014
Mexican Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare Jesús Alfonso Navarrete Prida and U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez signed a joint ministerial declaration that will result in action to inform Mexican workers in the United States about their labor rights under U.S. laws.
The action falls under the provisions of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation, a side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement, the U.S. Department of Labor said in an April 3 press release.
April 7, 2014
Mexican Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare Jesús Alfonso Navarrete Prida and U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez signed a joint ministerial declaration that will result in action to inform Mexican workers in the United States about their labor rights under U.S. laws.
The action falls under the provisions of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation, a side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement, the U.S. Department of Labor said in an April 3 press release.
The Mexican Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare had requested ministerial consultations with the Department of Labor on issues raised in three public submissions filed with the Mexican secretariat under the Agreement on Labor Cooperation. The submissions concerned the rights of Mexican migrants working in the United States on H-2A and H-2B visas in sectors such as agriculture, forestry, food packing, fairs and carnivals. Read more.
More Deportations Follow Minor Crimes, Records Show
NY Times
By Ginger Thompson and Sarah Cohen
April 6, 2014
With the Obama administration deporting illegal immigrants at a record pace, the president has said the government is going after “criminals, gang bangers, people who are hurting the community, not after students, not after folks who are here just because they’re trying to figure out how to feed their families.”
But a New York Times analysis of internal government records shows that since President Obama took office, two-thirds of the nearly two million deportation cases involve people who had committed minor infractions, including traffic violations, or had no criminal record at all. Twenty percent — or about 394,000 — of the cases involved people convicted of serious crimes, including drug-related offenses, the records show. Read more.
By Ginger Thompson and Sarah Cohen
April 6, 2014
With the Obama administration deporting illegal immigrants at a record pace, the president has said the government is going after “criminals, gang bangers, people who are hurting the community, not after students, not after folks who are here just because they’re trying to figure out how to feed their families.”
But a New York Times analysis of internal government records shows that since President Obama took office, two-thirds of the nearly two million deportation cases involve people who had committed minor infractions, including traffic violations, or had no criminal record at all. Twenty percent — or about 394,000 — of the cases involved people convicted of serious crimes, including drug-related offenses, the records show. Read more.
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