Sunday, September 26, 2010

Mexican New Yorkers Are Steady Force in Workplace

“Illegal immigrants are very convenient,” said Demetrios Papademetriou, president of the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research group in Washington. “Employers are quite interested in employing people who are willing to work and to overlook some labor laws.”

By Kirk Semple, New York Times
September 22, 2010

Night and day, the heavy front door rarely stops swinging. Men and women pass one another at the entrance of a four-story building on 21st Avenue in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, on their way out to work, or back in for a few hours of sleep between shifts. They are line cooks, construction laborers, deliverymen, deli workers, housecleaners and gardeners. [...]

Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/nyregion/23mexicans.html?_r=1&hp

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