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Sometimes as many as 15 buses a day head for the Guatemalan border. Guatemalan deportees are left to their own devices. Other Central Americans board a second bus to Guatemala City. There, yet another bus carries them to their own countries. "El Salvador accepts people from everywhere, including Mexico," complains Ana Carolina Herrera, 27, from Usulutan, El Salvador, who is waiting to board a bus south. "So why can't we enter Mexico...
...Labor Secretary refocused attention on the unlawfulness of harboring or employing illegal immigrants. But the latest story from America's underground work force has come through in lawsuits across the nation in recent years: that once hired, such workers are entitled to legal protection from abuse. Marta Mercado, the Guatemalan who received some $1,500 from Chavez over two years and did chores for her, has no complaints about her treatment. But many undocumented laborers, whose illegal status makes them vulnerable to exploitation...
...and/or pay situation came under extreme scrutiny. Each has her own story: After eight days of questioning, Baird admitted that her family had employed an illegal Peruvian couple whose wages were not taxed. Chavez insists she did nothing wrong from an employment point of view, claiming that an illegal Guatemalan immigrant living in her home was there out of charity, not to work - which is why Chavez never paid taxes on her wages. She could, however, be accused of harboring an illegal alien; after first claiming that she didn't know the woman was in the country without permission...
Labor Secretary-designate Linda Chavez withdrew her nomination Tuesday, saying she did not want any controversy to distract from President-elect George W. Bush's transition team. Chavez has faced increasing scrutiny for hosting an illegal Guatemalan immigrant 10 years ago - and paying her undisclosed sums of money for unspecified "chores" around the house...
...business about the illegal Guatemalan who lived in Chavez's house will not help. Perhaps Chavez is being set up as the designated sacrifice - the ritual victim whose rejection will be intended to warn the new Bush administration against more conservative Supreme Court appointments later in the game. The dogs Bork, the caravan moves...