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Article: Suit Puts Focus on Immigrant Workers' Rights
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- The Washington Post
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- October 11, 2009
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Gloria Garcia Barragan, 52, boarded a plane for the first time
this summer to travel from her home in southern Mexico to Decatur.
She came to this industrial central Illinois town to testify in the
wrongful death lawsuit concerning her son, who died in 2007 at age
26 of burns from an accident at the BioProducts plant of Archer
Daniels Midland.
Every week, Garcia's son, Francisco Garcia Moreno, sent money to
his family. He came to the United States as a teenager and was
earning about $16.50 an hour working for a contractor at the ADM
plant, which makes lysine and other additives. Besides helping
Garcia and his father, Antonio Garcia Valencia, an unemployed field
worker with health ...
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