Free Republic

Labor Rights Week at the Mexican consulate in San Bernardino begins today. The event, being held at consulates across the country, is to inform immigrant workers – no matter what their immigration status — of their rights under U.S. and state law. “We want people to be informed, to be conscious, of their fundamental labor rights,” Carolina Zaragoza Flores, consul for San Bernardino, said in Spanish. The San Bernardino consulate serves Mexicans in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Mexican consulates inaugurated Labor Rights week five years ago. Consulates of several Central American countries and the Philippines are among others that...