Article: Mexican farm workers skip red tape in United States and go to Canada.

By Hernan Rozemberg, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 29--LEAMINGTON, Canada -- He shuffled from one cucumber vine to the next, his fingers twirling and hoisting the plants and ripping out unwanted stems for deposit in a nearby pail.

Sliding a rickety wooden stool between vines, Esteban Mosqueda, a long way from his home in Irapuato, Mexico, repeated the process for 12 hours one day last month.

It was a typical day for Mosqueda, who spends eight months a year in Canada. He's directly responsible for 15,000 cucumber plants in this family-run greenhouse, so he's got no time to waste.

"It's good to ...

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