Guestworker Group Exposes Forced Labor in Tennessee
source: http://www.truth-out.org/guestworker-group-exposes-forced-labor-tennessee62496
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Jimenez and 11 other Mexican guestworkers arrived in Smyrna, Tennessee, to work for a company called Vanderbilt Landscaping. Vanderbilt obtained guestworker visas by claiming to the U.S. Department of Labor that it could not find a single American to fill its highway-side landscaping jobs—at a time when Tennessee suffers a 10.1 percent unemployment rate.
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toyotabedzrock
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The south has never given up slavery they simply found a different ethnicity to enslave.
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toyotabedzrock
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Stoneyroad
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toyotabedzrock:
And don't forget the long history of prison labor.
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Stoneyroad
