I demand some answers Smyrna landscaping company abused Mexicans, guest worker says?
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Hilario Razura Jimenez ran down a dark dirt road away from filthy trailers with no air conditioning or beds. He hid under a bridge in Mason, Tenn., for several hours Wednesday night until help arrived.On Thursday, with a group of reporters and advocates standing outside, the guest worker from Mexico collected his passport and wages due from the Smyrna landscaping company he said abused at least a dozen Mexican employees it recruited with work visas. Vanderbilt Landscaping LLC, which has no ties to the similarly named university, holds seven contracts worth $2.4 million with the Tennessee Department of Transportation. The company, at 1084 Courier Place, locked its doors to reporters Thursday afternoon, but a man who answered the phone later, identifying himself only as a co-owner, said, "The truth will come out in the end." A Louisiana-based guest worker advocacy group filed complaints on Jimenez's behalf with the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Labor and the Tennessee Department of Transportation, seeking an investigation."We are pretty limited in what we can investigate," said Julie Oaks, spokeswoman for TDOT. "But we are planning to look at their payroll." In a media conference before confronting his employer, Jimenez, 35, said the landscaping company kept his passport and those of about dozen other workers in the U.S. on H2B worker visas. He said managers trained a camera on the trailers where workers stayed, threatening to burn the passports of those who tried to run away. "I had no identification on me," he said. "Nothing to prove who I am. The conditions were so hard. … We couldn't take break in this heat. One guy vomited from the heat, and they would tell us to keep working." Jimenez, who has worked in the U.S. for at least three years on the H2B visa, said he pretended to make a cell phone call outside the trailers where he and his co-workers were staying in Mason, north of Memphis, and then bolted after everyone fell asleep. A volunteer with the Alliance of Guestworkers for Dignity, an affiliate of the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice, picked him up. Jimenez said he heard about the group after a co-worker was fired for contacting it. If a person with a guestworker visa is fired or leaves the job, he must return home. Jimenez has 10 days to go back to Mexico. In the meantime, an immigrant advocate is housing him. "There needs to be a dismantling of the systems that allow this to happen," said Saket Soni, executive director of the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice. He stressed that Jimenez was in the country legally. http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100813/NEWS01/8130352/Smyrna+landscaping+company+abused+Mexicans++guest+worker+says
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Many of the racists above couldn't read, but to enlighten them, they were here LEGALLY!! H2B visas should be banned. This was nothing more than slavery in the modern day. That's right folks, there are plenty of jobs out there... but why hire you when I can get a foreign person to do the job for pennies. Of course corporations and Republican obstructionists have fought to keep this system in place so they can line their pockets... but who cares right? WAKE UP PEOPLE!!
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America is for AMERICANS!!! Mexicans, GET OUT!!!
lonewolfe38652
Illegal immigrants have no rights under our laws, mexicans should leave our country for good!
Stephanie F
Is there a question in there or is this just some rant. We can all read the news!
workingman
They can always go back to Mexico and work for the drug cartels and then be killed
jhuss1256
So why are you telling us? Take it up with your congressman, it is his/her job. You could send your congressman an e-mail or certified letter. I'm sure they will get right on it.
Oscar
The answer you demand is......................................… MASS DEPORTATION NOW for ALL racist la raza nazi invading border criminal KKKlan with a Tan MESSYcan illegal ALIENS. Edit: as you can see from ALL the other answers you've been given. Everyone agrees with me.
Muerto Mujados
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