U.S. looking at Canada guest-worker program as model

Guillermo Hernandez Alcantar could provide a window into the future of migrant workers in the United States.

He had arrived in Canada from Mexico three days before. The journey brought him hundreds of miles north on the guarantee of work and stability — to pick the grapes that locals will not. He came as a legal guest worker.

“Right now, the Mexican workers have not finished arriving,” Hernandez Alcantar said on a brisk morning in March. “By May, they will all be here.”

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