Roughly 10% of Mexico's population of about 107 million is now living in the United States, estimates show. About 15% of Mexico's labor force is working in the United States. One in every seven Mexican workers migrates to the United States.
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Unions accept illegals into membership

The Pew Hispanic Center (Pew Charitable Trusts) in Washington DC estimated that 550,000 unauthorized construction workers arrived in the country between 2000 and 2005, making the industry the largest employer of short-term illegal workers. As a whole, unauthorized workers make up 5 percent of the U.S. labor force. Unions accept illegals into membership where they can make between $19-$23 an hour.

Story by Joe Grundle with lots of anecdotal evidence and plucking heart strings appears in the Kansas City Daily Record (Kansas City, MO), May 5, 2006.



# posted by Norma : 5/30/2006 02:31:00 PM




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