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December 12, 2008

Mexican Guestworkers Allege Forced Slavery
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In Louisiana, a group of Mexican guestworkers are accusing a former
employer of forcing them into slave-like conditions. In a new lawsuit,
the workers say the owner of Bimbo’s Best Produce illegally seized their
passports and forced them to work as strawberry pickers from 2006 to
2008. The guestworkers are members of the Alliance of Guestworkers for
Dignity, part of the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice.



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