| Wage Theft Common Among Mexican Immigrants Tristan Ahtone - Fronteras Desk | |
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Employers in New Mexico steal wages from one in four Mexican immigrant workers. That’s according to a new study from researchers at the University of New Mexico.
According to the report, wage theft in New Mexico doesn’t happen only to undocumented immigrants, workplace abuse is common, and wage theft is dramatically underreported.
Marcela Diaz is executive director of Somos Un Pueblo Unido, an immigrant-led organization that helped researchers with the report. She says out of 210 individuals surveyed, 29 percent of undocumented immigrants reported being victims of wage theft.
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