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Migrant Pickers Expose Slavery Rings

By Kari Lydersen

Florida—Mathieu Beaucicot is an immigrant from Haiti who came to the United States 11 years ago to earn money to send back to his family. He spent years getting up every morning at 4 a.m. to await the old school buses that would take him to the fields in Immokalee, Florida, for long days of picking tomatoes, oranges, and other… return to article

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    Feel free to go back to Haiti, Mathieu.

    United States Posted by Eddie on Jan 26, 2004 at 6:02 PM

    Feel free to go back to Haiti, Mathieu.

    United States Posted by Eddie on Jan 26, 2004 at 6:02 PM

    Feel free to go back to Haiti, Mathieu.

    United States Posted by Eddie on Jan 26, 2004 at 6:02 PM

    Feel free to go back to Haiti, Mathieu.

    United States Posted by Eddie on Jan 26, 2004 at 6:02 PM

    Feel free to go there yourself, Eddie.

    United States Posted by Mati on Jan 27, 2004 at 10:26 AM

    I would if you heard me complaining about how much better it was than the US.  If illegal immigrants don’t like it here they need to go back to the third world shitholes they came from instead of bitching about how we need to be more accomodating. 

    United States Posted by Eddie on Jan 27, 2004 at 11:37 AM

    I would if you heard me complaining about how much better it was than the US.  If illegal immigrants don’t like it here they need to go back to the third world shitholes they came from instead of bitching about how we need to be more accomodating. 

    United States Posted by Eddie on Jan 27, 2004 at 11:37 AM

    I would if you heard me complaining about how much better it was than the US.  If illegal immigrants don’t like it here they need to go back to the third world shitholes they came from instead of bitching about how we need to be more accomodating. 

    United States Posted by Eddie on Jan 27, 2004 at 11:37 AM

    It is just like drugs, drugs dealers exist because drogadicts do.  If Illegal workers permitted being underpaid the employers will always take advantage of it. Today the resolution is taken by the government to take advantage of their relatives’ votes in the elections. Their lives will be the same, if they do not decide to fight for their rights. They will not do it because they are afraid to deported. so is the never ended story. Who was the first the egg or the ken?

    United States Posted by Tatiana Pacheco on Jan 27, 2004 at 5:54 PM

    It is just like drugs, drugs dealers exist because drogadicts do.  If Illegal workers permitted being underpaid the employers will always take advantage of it. Today the resolution is taken by the government to take advantage of their relatives’ votes in the elections. Their lives will be the same, if they do not decide to fight for their rights. They will not do it because they are afraid to deported. so is the never ended story. Who was the first the egg or the ken?

    United States Posted by Tatiana Pacheco on Jan 27, 2004 at 5:55 PM

    Unfortunatly, the “Shithole” he is from is so poor because of the United States. Haiti is the country with the most United States intervention in the 20th century. If you read the history, it’s gruesome. I think we should show these people some compassion, at the very least. People seem to have this need to direct their anger at the suffering, rather than help them. I really don’t understand that.

    United States Posted by Paul Day on Jan 30, 2004 at 11:19 AM
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