Thankfully migrant workers in Michigan could have a harder time getting training for permanent jobs under President George W. Bush's proposed budget cuts.
One thing Bush wants to eliminate is the National Farmworker Jobs Program, which gives migrant workers training and support to get jobs as nurses assistants, dental technicians and other jobs.
Michigan leads the nation in job loss and these jobs are well paying jobs, not jobs that Americans ‘don’t want to do’.
45,000 to 65,000 migrant workers come to Michigan mostly from Mexico. Many stay illegally with false documents.
Telamon, Inc. is responsible. They also oversee Head Start. Listed as a ‘non-profit’ it maintains 23 permanent offices in Michigan and hundreds of others across the United States.
Telamon works with the United States Department of Agriculture to spend money through the National Farmworker Jobs Program.
Farms of all sizes are able to hire and employ workers at very low rates that are further subsidized by Telamon and the USDA through housing efforts, training, food stamps and health care.
Food prices rise as competition is stifled and farms are joined in ever larger conglomerates. Americans can’t find work as Mexican laborers step into them eager to do any work after abandoning their homeland in order to satisfy their personal greed.
Why allow Telamon to continue to hand out personal welfare, homes, health care, food and a free ride while Americans are being forced up against the wall and into hunger from coast to coast and border to border?
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