Sweet Earth Special: Farmworkers and Immigrant Reform
09/16/2008
For Washington farmers, the arrival of the harvest season is pretty predicable. What's less predictable, is who will show up to bring in the crops. Many of the state's farm workers are undocumented immigrants, at risk of deportation. It's a shaky way to run a business, and farmers here are fed up with the federal government's failure on immigration reform. KUOW's Liz Jones has our story.© Copyright 2008, KUOW
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- KUOW's special report: Sweet Earth
- Washington Growers League
- Emergency Agricultural Relief Act
- H-2A Guest Worker Program (U.S. Department of Labor)
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