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Immigration Reform and the guest worker program.

Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International,

that they look at the issues Americans care about most.

As a price for granting citizenship to 11 million undocumented residents,

Republicans want to improve and extend the guest worker program.

Farmers claim they need to import foreigners for jobs Americans won't do.

Native-born workers say farmers want cheap laborers who can't complain. In some

southern states, African-American workers have been fired and replaced with foreign Latinos. Can

new rules protect both Americans and migrants while improving labor conditions at the same time?

A reporter's notebook later on, 1979, in the birth of the 21st century. First

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I'll be back with To the Point.

The immigration reform bill, which is now being debated in Washington, would amend and extend the guest worker program. We'll hear what it could mean for farmers and migrant laborers and American workers who say they're being pushed out of the job market. With the new rules, improve working conditions for foreigners and domestic employees. On reporter's notebook, a new book traces the world

of today back to 1979 and the actions of Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, Dung Zhao Peng,

and Ayatollic hominy. We'll talk with the author. First, this news update. More than two weeks

since a clothing factory collapsed in Bangladesh, a woman was pulled alive from the rubble today, but the death pole has risen to more than a thousand. That's the worst in garment industry history.

Georgetown University professor Pietra Rivoli is author of the travels of a t-shirt in the global economy. Professor, thanks for joining us.

You're very welcome. Thank you. Do we know how this woman, whose name is Rushma, was able to

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