It's been going on for years.
Remember the story from the Mexican I worked with almost seven years ago who told me a story about working in the Alaska fishing industry some years before that while he was illegal?
Notice that the paper doesn't relate the nationality or legal status of those mentioned, just current hometown residency. The first names would infer that they are either foreign born or first generation, but that's not a given.
The second article mentioned the possibility of foreign nationals, but the word "Illegally" as used in the article refers to proper licensing and such to clam, it's not a reference to illegal residency.
However, I don't believe there would be too many people who grew up in Bakersfield who would go to Alaska for $11k a year, and it seems to me that the term "contractor" means they were employed in a fashion to evade labor laws.
E-verify would clear up the question of illegal residency.
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Last edited by ilbegone; 05-21-2011 at 07:11 AM.
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