Maya USA

The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 and its Impact on Guatemalan Maya in the United States

Abstract

By degrees it has come to pass that working men have been surrendered, isolated and helpless, to the hardheartedness of employers and the greed of unchecked competition … To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself (Pope Leo XIII 1891).