Migrant Workers, Blackwater, VA

Migrant workers pick cucumbers in Blackwater, Virginia, on the farm of Ricky Horton and Sherilyn Shepard on Monday, July 25, 2011.

 

Almost three-fourths of all U.S. hired farm workers are immigrants, most of them unauthorized. The U.S. food system—particularly fruit and vegetable production—depends on immigrants more than any other sector of the U.S. economy.

 

Photo by Laura Elizabeth Pohl/Bread for the World

 

Learn more about U.S. immigration policies and agriculture: notes.bread.org/2011/11/immigrant-farm-workers-and-the-us...

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