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Road to Rantoul: Migrant workers journey to central Illinois
Photo by Darrell Hoemann/Midwest Center for Investigative ReportingThe Nightingale Camp in Rantoul, Ill., is licensed by the state to house more than 400 migrant workers. The workers come north from...
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Soybean farmers among those to oppose tighter farm worker protections
Darrell Hoemann/Midwest Center for Investigative ReportingAgriculture planes park at an airport in Rantoul, Ill. on July 29, 2014. The Environmental Protection Agency is reviewing its standards on...
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Illinois lawyer combats sexual assault of migrant workers
Photo by Claire Everett/Midwest Center for Investigative ReportingIn a 2010 Southern Poverty Law Center survey of 150 Mexican women working the fields in California’s Central Valley , 80 percent said...
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Heat rising over ‘hot goods’
Photo by Faith Cathcart/The OregonianBlueberry pickers at a farm in Hillsboro, Ore. An attempted crackdown on minimum wage and child labor violations at berry farms in the Pacific Northwest has sparked...
View ArticleBlighted Housing: Visa program requires housing inspections for non-U.S....
Hundreds of migrant workers come to the United States from Mexico and other countries with special H-2A farm visas, but they make up only a fraction of the total number of migrant workers. SEE RELATED:...
View ArticleBlighted Housing: Much of Missouri migrant farmworker housing left out of...
In Missouri, inspections for migrant worker housing are required only for employers that own housing units that will be occupied by temporary foreign workers, according to the Missouri Department of...
View ArticleBlighted Housing: A look inside eight migrant farmworker ‘camps’
Click to explore: Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting migrant farmworker housing database Below are noteworthy problems inspectors observed at eight migrant farmworker camps. Click on the name...
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Blighted Housing: Inspections fail to stem poor conditions for migrant...
Ricardo Arismendez left his home in Temple, Texas, in the autumn of 2014 to work 12-hour days for $9.50 an hour at a corn processing facility in central Illinois. As part of the deal that included...
View ArticleFederal ruling allows first forced labor case against private prison
Thousands of migrant workers, as well as other undocumented immigrants, may have been forced into labor in violation of federal anti-slavery laws, a federal judge ruled last week. The ruling allowed...
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