How we're creating an illegal workforce
Foreigners in Canada on temporary work permits are being pushed into Toronto's underground economy by the recession and a controversial federal program that leaves them vulnerable to abuse, a Star investigation has found. They include people like Tony, a 29-year-old Honduran, who left his Alberta...
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- News Source: Toronto Star | 23 days agoMac Akela, who cannot be shown for legal reasons, has been forced to work illegally after abuse by employers. In Mumbai, Mac Akela was a top chef at a luxury hotel, running a department of 72 people and preparing meals for the rich and powerful...And...
- News Source: Toronto Star | 24 days agoHe "escaped" an Alberta farm where he spent 12 hours a day on his knees picking green onions. Tony had never heard of Alberta when he applied to pick vegetables on a farm there in the summer...That was good enough for him and 300 other Hondurans...
- News Source: Toronto Star | 24 days agoForeigners in Canada on temporary work permits are being pushed into Toronto's underground economy by the recession and a controversial federal program that leaves them vulnerable to abuse, a Star investigation has found. They include people like...
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- Blog Source: www.asagency.orgHow we're creating an illegal workforce – Toronto Star The program is made up of four streams: the Live-In Caregiver Program, the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program, and programs for high-skilled workers and low-skilled ones. ...
- Blog Source: www.philleeproductions.orgFor that matter, we have well over 12 million illegal aliens in this country, but a total agricultural work force of only about 1 million, so it seems that most illegal aliens don't "want" those jobs either. ...
- Blog Source: denver10.cityspur.comRecently as of August 10, 2007, President Bush is trying make a push for his plan to raise the fines on employers who hire illegal immigrants as part of a broader plan said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. ...
- Blog Source: nat.orgWhich in terms would create jobs to fulfill that demand. This is neither completely true, nor false. Quite often immigrants from poorer countries will send money abroad to their family. This will lead to more consumption in their country of origin. .
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