The first of the 388 workers arrested in the immigration raid on the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, were deported in mid-October, having spent five months in federal prison. Their crime? Giving a bad Social Security number to the company to get hired. The Postville raid was one of the many recent immigration operations…
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Malls, Migration and the Philippine economy
The three biggest shopping malls in the world are located in Metro Manila. Malling (not to be confused with shopping) has become the national pastime. Why do malls thrive in a poor country like the Philippines? One reason is the emergence of the overseas Filipino workers, or OFWs, and their families as reliable customers of…