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Puerto Rican Migrants Airlifted From Michigan Pickle Plant
About 230 Puerto Rican migrant workers were flown home from Edmore Michigan after Miller Pickle Company shut down and could not pay wages or transportation costs. Another 59 left on a separate flight. The group was met at Detroit Metropolitan Airport where police reported orderly conduct and some offered immediate work by fruit growers. The move followed efforts by Puerto Rico’s migration division led by Joseph Monserrat and William Man to recover roughly 27500 dollars in owed wages.
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Netroit
UPI
Commonwealth Island
Michigan
Edmore
Mich
Miller Pickle Company
Joseph Monserrat
New York
Puerto Rico
Befor
Montserrat
William Man
Chicago
Commonwealth
Metropolitan
Mel Kaufman
Detroit