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Foreign Guestworkers Are Routinely Exploited by U.S. Employers Seeking Cheap Labor, Captive Workforce, New Report Finds.

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| March 12, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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WASHINGTON, March 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Guestworkers who come to the United States are routinely cheated out of wages; forced to mortgage their futures to obtain low-wage, temporary jobs; held virtually captive by employers who seize their documents; forced to live in squalid conditions; and denied medical benefits for injuries, according to a report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

The report -- Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States -- comes as Congress is about to begin debating immigration legislation that could greatly expand guestworker programs to cover hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of new temporary foreign workers.…

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