DetNews.com, MI
The overheated crowd stirs as two Americans approach the gate. Faces push through iron bars, shouting and smiling to draw the attention of the men they hope are offering jobs.
Fanny Soyepa Mejia slips to the front of the crowd. She arrived at the industrial park at 7 a.m. Five hours later, it is 100 degrees under a baking tropical sun, but the 28-year-old refuses to leave. Today, she thinks, might be the day she gets a factory job.
She hasn't worked in three years. She has four sons and no husband, and no way to pay the 20 lempiras ($1.11) per month to send each of her kids to school.
Some days, personnel directors inside the gate tell the guards to pick people for job interviews. There are always more people outside than jobs inside.
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