from New York this is democracy now today a labor day special the person

who called me was unlike most of the workers who called he wasn't from

Mississippi or Louisiana he wasn't either white black or Latino he was an Indian

man flown in from India calling from the Mississippi Gulf Coast and I thought

what was an Indian man doing coming here to clean up after Hurricane

Katrina we'll speak to longtime immigrant labor organizer socket Sony about

how immigrant workers have been lured to the United States and trapped and

forced labor to rebuild communities after climate disasters then we'll go to

Salvadoran poet and writer Javier Zamora author of the best-selling memoir

Salito as a nine-year-old boy he traveled alone for thousand miles to reach

the United States from seven eight and nine I knew that I wanted to be reunited

with my parents what kid doesn't want to be and wake up next to his parents and so

I didn't really understand how I was gonna get here or how dangerous it was for

me to travel the four thousand miles that I did but what I did know is that I

loved my parents and that really really really wanted to be with them all that

and more coming up

welcome to democracy now democracy now dot org the Warren Peace Report I'm Amy

Goodman today a labor day special as the rate of climate-fuel disasters

intensifies we begin today's show looking at how immigrant workers have been

lured into forced labor by corporations that hire them to clean up after

hurricanes floods blizzards and wildfires this is what long-time labor

organizer socket Sony writes about in his new book the great escape a true

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