On President's Day, The US Customs and Immigration Services released a statement announcing and celebrating the president's plan to expand the H2A labor program as an answer to widening calls for immigration reform. The memo is deeply problematic and at the same time not at all surprising.
In this episode, Lelo Juarez, Rosalinda Guillen, and David Bacon respond to the memo and discuss the damage that an already unmitigated labor exploitation program is doing to families in the US and in other countries that are impacted by upside down US policies.
Read the Dignity Campaign's statement on Abolishing H2A here.
Songs in this episode:
Dark Eyes by Lila Downs
El Conchinito by Los Jornaleros Del Norte
Many thanks to Rosa Martha Zarate Macias for our theme music. Find more music from Rosa here.
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