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Alleged forced migrant labor trafficking investigated in California forests

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4 August 2014, News10ABC.net Thousands of miles from home, stained with toxic chemicals and threatened with guns, workers say they couldn’t leave even if they wanted to. The migrant workers, all from Mexico, were in a foreign country and they say their passports had been confiscated by company supervisors. That’s part of a story told […]

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Visas, Inc.

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Ashwani Sukthankar, Global Workers Justice Alliance 2012 Read about how the landscape of American employment is being dramatically altered by an expanding system of guestworker visas issued to hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, in the report Visas, Inc: Corporate Control and Policy Incoherence in the U.S. Temporary Foreign Labor System, presented by Global Workers Justice Alliance. Visas, Inc provides

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Monty: Immigration reform vital for America’s competitive edge

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26, June 2014, Chron One year ago today, the U.S. Senate passed the first major piece of immigration reform legislation since the Reagan administration. That same day, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee passed a much more focused, but very important measure, called the SKILLS Visa Act, which would provide much-needed updates to our nation’s high-skilled visa system. However, neither

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