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ENCORE: Florida Farmers & the 'Guest Workers' Who Pick their Crops


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Florida farmers face acute needs for labor when the harvest comes, and in recent years they've relied on guest workers from other countries under the H-2A visa program to pick their crops. The visa locks the guest worker into a contract with their employer, who has to meet an array of obligations to those workers as they live and work in the U.S. Some see it as a model program, while others call it a program of last resort.
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Gulf Coast LiveBy WGCU News