The wages of death: why immigrant workers need a better contract with America. (A Special Report On Immigration And Work).
American Prospect, The, July, 2003 by Bacon, David
That morning, Edilberto Morales' supervisor called at 3. The phone rang in the apartment above the gun store, where he and five friends shared three rooms. They all got up, and in the cold darkness they put on their work clothes and made their lunch, their breath puffing like smoke in the September air.
Outside, the van picked them up a little before 6. Another nine people were already inside--they lived in the apartment of the driver, Juan, just a few minutes away in the tiny town of Caribou, Maine. The men stopped at the gas station to buy snacks, and the van pulled out onto ...
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