Tag: Immigration
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The Company We Keep
My son asked me a question the other day that still cuts very deep. “How are you comfortable being in league with racists, xenophobes and reactionaries?” he asked. What prompted the question was my support for Brexit. I’ll admit it is true that the likes of Boris Johnson, the idiotic and racist former London mayor,…
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A Plug for Unions
The New York Times published a story yesterday about a study (done at Harvard and elsewhere involving income data from millions of people) that found In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters. If you’re born in the bottom 20 percent in New York City, for instance, you’ll wind up on average around the 40th percentile. People…
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TRACK WORKERS UNDER SCRUTINY; REGULATORS VOW BETTER CHECKING
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Thursday, November 21, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | 5 Star | NEWS | Page B03 The New Jersey Racing Commission plans to meet with state and federal agencies in a effort to tighten up its worker licensing procedures, after 70 Meadowlands Racetrack stable hands were taken…
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RAID AT RACETRACK; 70 SEIZED AS ILLEGAL WORKERS
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Wednesday, November 20, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page B08 Federal immigration officials on Tuesday seized 70 workers in a sweep of The Meadowlands Racetrack for illegal aliens, authorities said. Immigration and Naturalization Service agents, working on a tip and after…
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MAN ARRESTED IN BERGEN WANTED BY FEDS
A 30-year-old Israeli who was arrested in Cliffside Park on burglary charges is wanted by federal authorities for illegally reentering the United States, officials said.