Travis Putnam Hill

Big Employers Are Benefiting From Cheap, Illegal Labor

Two cases illustrate how big-name employers benefit from illegal labor and why undocumented workers are easily exploited.

Travis Putnam Hill
От Travis Putnam Hill
Two cases, Target and H.E.B. illustrate how big-name employers benefit from illegal labor and why undocumented workers are easily exploited. (AP/Elise Amendola, File)

At an hour when many people are tucking themselves in for the night, the cleaning crew at an Austin-area Target store is just getting started. By the time it finishes in the early morning, workers will have cleaned the bathrooms, taken out the garbage, washed windows and carpets and polished the floors to that reflective white sheen on which the

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Immigration Of Central American Children Surges Again At U.S. Border

Many of those apprehended are children traveling alone or in so-called “family units,” and come from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

Eleanor Dearman
Travis Putnam Hill
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And Travis Putnam Hill
A family unit and unaccompanied minors encountered by Border Patrol Agents and Texas Game Wardens, wait as paper work is filled out. Wednesday, April 8, 2015.

For the second time in three years, the U.S. Border Patrol is apprehending more non-Mexicans than Mexicans along the southwest border, reflecting a renewed surge of Central American migrants fleeing violence and gang warfare in their home countries. Many of those apprehended are children traveling alone or in so-called “family units,” and come

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