Source: Suzy Khimm and Daniella Silva, NBC NEWS, 7/29/20

 The woods were so cold, Alberto Reyes could hardly feel his fingers when the bus came to pick him up, more than 10 hours after he’d started gathering pine needles from the forest floor with his bare hands. Two weeks earlier, in February 2018, Reyes had come to the United States through a fast-growing visa program for temporary farmworkers. The Georgia-based labor contractor who recruited him, Manuel Sanchez, had promised Reyes...

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