THEY'RE STEALING THOSE BODY BAGS FROM ANGLOS!

Mexican worker deaths rise as overall U.S. job safety improves (JUSTIN PRITCHARD, 3/13/04, Associated Press

The jobs that lure Mexican workers to the United States are killing them in a worsening epidemic that is now claiming a victim a day, an Associated Press investigation has found.

Though Mexicans often take the most hazardous jobs, they are more likely than others to be killed even when doing similarly risky work.

The death rates are greatest in several Southern and Western states, where a Mexican worker is four times more likely to die than the average U.S.-born worker. In Florida, deaths have risen with the Mexican population, tripling from 10 in 1996 to 30 in 2002, the last year of complete federal data.

These accidental deaths are almost always preventable and often gruesome: Workers are impaled, shredded in machinery, buried alive. Some are as young as 15.

Sure, Tom Tancredo is a congressman, but he secretly dreams of snagging one of those sweet jobs the Mexicans are taking.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 13, 2004 7:43 PM