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Article: US authorities hold tougher line on hiring illegal immigrants; Criminal arrests, often of executives, quadrupled in a year. But is it a tactic to pass a guest-worker program?(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 20, 2007
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Byline: Patrik Jonsson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
ATLANTA -- No, Ana Figueroa told the young seamstress, who was posing as a recent immigrant from Mexico. Without papers, she couldn't work at the plant.
A beat passed. Then Ms. Figueroa, who screened employees at Michael Bianco Inc. (MBI), told her to see "Felix" on the factory floor. He would get her papers for $60.
"Usted no oyo eso de mi," she added. ("You didn't hear that from me.") A few days later, the seamstress, who happened to be an undercover informant wearing a microphone, found herself at a sewing machine, stitching survival vests for the US military.
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