Activists for 'bracero' migrant workers released from custody in Mexico ..

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Activists for 'bracero' migrant workers released from custody in Mexico City

MEXICO CITY – Ten activists for former "bracero" migrant workers were released from police custody in Mexico City but still may face charges after forcing their way into government offices, federal prosecutors said Saturday.

The members of Braceroproa were arrested on Wednesday during a protest at the federal Interior Department, which is overseeing a newly created fund to compensate former braceros for money withheld from their paychecks when they worked in the United States from the 1940s to the 1960s.

The money, meant as individual savings, apparently was handed over to Mexico's government by the U.S. government and then vanished.

Mexico's Congress this year approved a US$27 million (euro22 million) fund to partially compensate the bracero workers, but activists argue that the rules governing the fund will block payments to many who should receive them. <snip>

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20050820-1144-mexico-braceros.html

[Robert Oak]

1. there is a reason

40% of all Mexicans want to come to the US, that country SUCKS.

Of course the idea of putting pressure on Mexico to start giving human and civil rights to it's people hasn't crossed a single politician's brain though and of course not, that might be a major threat to their cheap labor supply.