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Article: CHINA TO HIRE OUT FARM WORKERS FOR U.S.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 25, 1987
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Byline: Fox Butterfield New York Times
A company run by Chinese- Americans in New York City has contracted to bring a large number of Chinese peasants to the United States as temporary farm workers under a new program established by the 1986 immigration law.
K.K. Soo, president of the Chinese Agricultural Manpower Center, the New York concern, said he has a contract with the Chinese government to recruit the peasants and has already received inquiries from American growers from Oregon and California to New Jersey and New York.
Soo said it is impossible to make a firm projection of the number of Chinese peasants who would be brought in under the ...