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Old 22nd October 2007, 02:32 PM   #5 (permalink)
SageMother
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Default Re: Big investigation into QLD foreign worker tree felling death

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Originally Posted by Tim Craig View Post
Interesting story, many immigrants in the UK are working illegally for peanuts and under diabolical conditions, last year about 20 chinese cockle pickers died in one night when the tide came in on morecombe bay and trapped them on a sandbank, they drowned, very tragic. And the Uk is the 4th richest country in the world!
The same problems abound here in the USA. Illegals come in, work for next to nothing with no safety net except welfare if they get hurt on the job. Their status prevents them from demanding the standards that citizens demand. Laws should be written that require employers to cover all employees as they would citizens, or at least put those who hire illegals, in jail.
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