Growing Pains: Guest Farm Workers Face Exploitation, Dangerous Conditions

ROYAL CITY, WA- Carlos Gutierrez, an immigrant H-2A guest worker, strings up wire supports for planting apple trees in a Stemilt Company field.

Photojournalist and social critic, David Bacon in Capital & Main offers a look at the exploitation of temporary immigrant workers.  “Many migrant workers in California on H-2A temporary agricultural visas are forced to contend with unsafe working conditions, wage theft and other labor law violations.”

It is a two-part series.  Here is part 2.

Francisco Lozano, a Mixtec farm worker and community activist, with his wife at home in Santa Maria.

KJ