Posted on 04/10/2007 3:30:13 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
A Mexican employee at an organization that fought for the rights of Mexican migrant guest workers in North Carolina and other states in the U.S. was found beaten to death in the northern city of Monterrey, officials said Tuesday.
The body of Santiago Rafael Cruz was found early Monday at the Monterrey, Mexico, office of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Leticia Zavala, international vice president for the organization, said in a telephone interview from North Carolina.
The Ohio-based arm of the AFL-CIO represents the rights of migrant farm workers, she said.
Officials believe Cruz was killed late Sunday or early Monday. He had been hired recently as the Monterrey office manager and was staying at the office while he looked for a place to live.
Police had made no arrests in the case, Zavala said. On its Web site, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee said it believed the killing was related to the group's work defending the rights of migrant workers.
"We have put up with constant attacks in both the U.S. and Mexico, including having our staff harassed, our office burglarized and broken into several times, and a number of other attempted break-ins," it said. "Now the attacks have come to this."
Zavala said the killing did not appear to be a burglary because nothing was missing.
"We are hoping the authorities in Mexico take the matter seriously and do everything they can to investigate what happened," Zavala said.
The office helped migrant workers get visas and defend their rights.
Not unless it was other than Mexican migrants!
I guess he got it...
Anybody have a link to any comments from the rank and file about the union leadership supporting illegal immigration?
Oh yeah, I’m just tore up about the labor organizer. At least he died in his home country.
Hey, if these guys would organize and start making some noise about getting rights and decent pay, all of the incentive for hiring them here would disappear.
I say, equal pay for illegals!!!
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I won’t celebrate because the man is dead but I certainly am not going to shed any tears either.
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I doubt anyone from NC was involved.
RIP.
Make that no US NC citizen was involved. Funny how they're always pushing illegals' US rights but never Mexican citizen rights.
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