Source: FORTUNE, 6/8/18


Industrialized agriculture depends on a ready source of cheap labor, and factory farms across the United States have a long history of exploiting immigrants to provide this need. The U.S. government has enacted many measures to support agribusiness, including programs to supply manual labor from other countries. In the 1940s, the Bracero Program, translated in Spanish as “one who works with their arms,” was created to supply foreign workers to U.S. farms. In the 1960s, it became the H-2A visa program, which remains in place today, amid contentious debates now taking place in Washington, D.C.

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