butterbean
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 Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:56 pm Post subject: Mexican workers fear deportation in Vermont |
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Vermont needs to put out more of a welcome mat for Mexican workers employed at dairy farms around the state or those workers might start looking for jobs elsewhere, a Mexican consulate official in Boston says.
Rodrigo Marquez, deputy counsel for the Mexican consulate in Boston, said last week that Vermont has a reputation among Mexican workers in New England as a place where they have to live in isolation because of a constant fear of deportation.
Many of the estimated 2,000 Mexicans working on farms in Vermont are believed to have entered the country illegally. Nationally, there are more than 12 million illegal immigrants, half of them from Mexico.
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http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070204/NEWS01/702040310/1009&theme |
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