Mexican Guest Workers, Laid Off, Want BP’s Help
Mexican Guest Workers, Laid Off, Want BP’s Help
By TAMAR LEWIN
Published: August 5, 2010
NEW ORLEANS — Soon after the oil from the Deepwater Horizon began gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, business at the Ramada Plaza Beach Resort in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., dried up — and so did the jobs of five Mexican housekeepers who were guest workers at the hotel under contracts guaranteeing them work until Nov. 1.
“On June 30, they told us our jobs were over, and that we had to leave our housing and go back to Mexico,â€