This legislation is urgently needed to stop the Inexcusable pattern of labor and human rights abuses in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMIj. Over 35 Members of the House. as well as prominent human rights and religious groups. and national labor organizations are unified In their support of this legislation. This bill would mandate needed reforms In the CNMIs minimum wage and Immigration policies that have allowed the recruitment of a disenfranchised. low paid foreign workforce that now outnumbers the local. Indigenous population. These workers are treated as commodities. with little individual value. and are regularly denied the labor. health and safety protections guaranteed by U.S. law.
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