Who's picking your food? A record number of foreign laborers
Story Date: 1/12/2018

 

Source: Geoffrey Mohan, LA TIMES, 1/9/18


Recruiters in California’s wine country have been known to drive two hours to Stockton to find farmworkers.
Vineyard manager Chris Bowland went nearly 2,000 miles farther last year — to small villages in the Mexican state of Michoacan, where he recruited a dozen agricultural guest workers under a federal visa program called H-2A.

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