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Archive Home > 2010 > September > 09 > DeFazio calls for probe into foreign worker visas

DeFazio calls for probe into foreign worker visas

Labor Department is urged to investigate practice used to win federal stimulus contracts

By Keith Chu / The Bulletin
September 9, 2010

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Springfield, wants an investigation of forest contractors who use foreign employees to win federal stimulus contracts, in response to a series of articles in The Bulletin that spotlighted the practice.

Forest contractors have long used foreign workers, but....

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