Over 2 or 3 months ago. there were a number of stories that appeared in the Washington Post and other newspapers which referred to a series of allegations about fundraising scandals in the Clinton reelection. As part of this corpus of stories regarding this issue. there was an effort to stigmatize my home island of Guam in the context of those donations. It was alleged that the people of Guam were seeking local control of immigration in order to be able to bring in thousands of foreign workers under exploitative conditions in order to set up sweatshops for the purpose of moving cheaply made goods into the United States. into the 50 States. Those allegations. of course. are unfounded and have absolutely no basis in fact or even interpretation. The people of Guam have consistently wanted local control over immigration in order to mitigate population growth and in order to limit population growth. All the existing laws regarding labor and minimum wage that are fully applicable in the 50 States are also applicable in Guam and there is no desire on the part of the people of Guam to get out from under those applications of those laws. For the past week. there have been stories. many of them have been prompted by a letter written by President Clinton to the Governor of the CNMI. the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas.
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