California. and were dispatched to Tijuana on a fact finding mission to determine the conditions workers are forced to endure in the maquiladora program. Maquiladora corporations owned by U.S. and other multinationals operate along the border in the same way that such giant conglomerates will operate throughout Mexico if NAFTA is approved. The immigration agents admitted they held the JAM American and Canadian citizens at the request of the owners of maquiladora factories. The 38 visitors included John Jefferies. a member of the Maryland House of Delegates. Visitors found that workers employed by the U.S. multinationals worked for less than $7 per day and lived in abject poverty in slums polluted by the surrounding high tech plants. The names of the people who put out this release are Jim Conley and Pat Ziska. and they have given a telephone number (714) 7404460. Taking this on its face and assuming that it is accurate. as I take it to be. this is an outrageous act by these immigration officials. or whoever these Mexican authorities were that would have detained these American visitors and Canadian visitors in this situation and held them under the conditions that they have described in this press release that they have prepared now and circulated. I think we need an immediate explanation as to what happened here. I think we need an assurance there is not going to be any more intimidation of a single American citizen who is down there taking a look at what is going on. and that this kind of a situation cannot be tolerated.
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