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Close to Slavery: Report Finds Labor Abuses Under Guestworker Programs

Close to Slavery: Report Finds Labor Abuses Under Guestworker Programs

As President Bush renews his call for legislation that allows more immigrants to come to the United States as so-called guestworkers, a new report based on thousands of interviews finds widespread worker abuses under the program. We speak with the author of the report and we go to Guatemala to speak with a former guestworker. [includes rush transcript]

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