The Risks
Caught In The Crossfire
BRIAN PATRICK, A BUILDER BASED IN NORTHERN California, remembers that when he was growing up in Southern California in the 1960s, his uncle was a mason and always had Mexicans working for his company. The workers would be on hand during the height of the building season and then go back to Mexico in December for the holidays. While there were abuses in the industry at large, Patrick says that the Mexicans who worked for his uncle were accepted and treated fairly.
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