Sunday, July 05, 2020

Immigrant workers at Michigan greenhouse: We were cheated, tricked into deportation


We are fed propaganda that being rich is a result of being a good person. But it is often the result of being willing to cheat and lie. This case is far from unusual.

https://news.yahoo.com/immigrant-workers-michigan-greenhouse-were-192530517.html


Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press
,USA TODAY•July 5, 2020


When Eduardo Reyes-Trujillo arrived in Michigan in 2018 to work at a greenhouse about 30 minutes south of Detroit, he hoped to earn enough money to help some of his poor family members back in Mexico.

The migrant worker had come to the United States legally to work at Four Star Greenhouse in Carleton through a temporary agricultural visa known as H-2A.

But he said his dreams were crushed after he and other workers were cheated out of their pay despite working long hours.After they complained, he said that they were lured and tricked by their employer into being detained by federal immigration agents in a Walmart parking lot, and eventually sent back to Mexico.

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