Speech on the Plight of the Foreign Workers of the CNMI
Kelvin RodeoPublished on: 21/06/2026
A January 2014 speech by Kelvin Rodeo on the exploitation, legal limbo, and human rights crisis facing thousands of long-term nonresident workers in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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