Labor & Economic News Blog

Friday, April 14, 2006

U.S. Firms Recruit Cheap Labor in Mexico

U.S. Firms Recruit Cheap Labor in Mexico
In StarTribune.com Business
SASABE, Mexico (AP) - When Pedro Lopez Vazquez crossed illegally into the United States last week, he was not heading north to look for a job. He already had one. His future employer even paid $1,000 for a smuggler to help Vazquez make his way from the central Mexican city of Puebla to Aspen, Colo. "We're going to Colorado to work in carpentry because we have a friend who was going to give us a job,'' Vazquez said. Vazquez, 41, was interviewed along the Arizona border after being deported twice by the U.S. Border Patrol. He said he would keep trying until he got to Aspen.

 



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