Foreign Students in Work Visa Program Stage Walkout at Plant: "PALMYRA, Pa. — Hundreds of foreign students, waving their fists and shouting defiantly in many languages, walked off their jobs on Wednesday at a plant here that packs Hershey’s chocolates, saying a summer program that was supposed to be a cultural exchange had instead turned them into underpaid labor.
The students, from countries including China, Nigeria, Romania and Ukraine, came to the United States through a long-established State Department summer visa program that allows them to work for two months and then travel. They said they were expecting to practice their English, make some money and learn what life is like in the United States..."
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That is unbelievable even by our loathsome standards.
Read the article twice. I can hear Limbaugh now.
It is unbelievable. What gets me is that it's not even the first time it's happened. I can't believe that no one follows up on these students. Something like this happening in America makes us no better than what some third world countries do to their workers. It's unacceptable.
You should also watch the video Justice at Hershey's. I have it posted before this one.
This is horrific.
It really is.
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