Mexican guest workers at the center of an FBI investigation say that their boss treated them like animals.
Charles "Bimbo" Relan, the Louisiana farmer who employs the immigrants, allegedly confiscated the workers' passports, kept them working hunched over for hours, fired his shot gun over the workers' heads, killed the stray dog the workers kept as a pet, and sometimes paid them only $2 an hour. He also exposed the immigrants to dangerous pesticides.
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The US isn't going to be #1 for long — but this is one record that could be worth giving up: Mexico is on track to eclipse the US as the fattest country within the next 10 years.
Almost half of Mexico's 110 million people are overweight and the number of overweight children has risen by 8 percent every year for the past decade, with Type 2 diabetes skyrocketing as well. The cause?
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Mexico has one of the lowest HIV-infection rates in all of Latin America, at 0.3 percent of the adult population. Unfortunately, the low rate doesn't apply to sex workers or men who have sex with men. Fifteen percent of gay men in Mexico are infected, and sex workers, whose profession is legal in Mexico, often must decide between using protection or making more money without, either way gambling with their survival.
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Barriers — financial and physical — could influence the makeup of newly naturalized Americans. After citizen application rates rose 70 percent, from $440 to $675, half as many people have applied for US citizenship in the beginning of this year compared to last year.
To become eligible for citizenship, a person must be a legal permanent resident who has lived continuously in the US for 5 years.
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