Palm Beach Post News series on Migrant Farmworkers

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From Greg Schell:

For the past nine months, several reporters from the Palm Beach Post have been

investigating farm labor problems in Florida, particularly as they relate to

undocumented farmworkers. This week, the newspaper published an extensive

three-part series on the investogator's findings. The work is quite

comprehensive, and even includes a first person account from a reporter who

crossed the Arizona desert with a group of undocumented farmworkers, and then

rode with the workers in a coyote's vehicle from Arizona to Florida. Among other

things, the articles profile living and working conditions in Wimauma,

Fellsmere, Lake Worth and Immokalee. The series also discusses the huge societal

costs that the abuse and mistreatment of farmworkers imposes both on American

society and in the social fabric of the home villages in Mexico and Guatemala.

The articles are all collected on the website maintained by the Sarasota/Manatee

Farm Worker Supporters. By the way, this is a terrific website that has

collected more articles and news on Florida farmworkers than any other, so it's

worth checking out periodicially:

http://www.smfws.com/#Articles <http://www.smfws.com/>

Ruiz

Assistant Director Systems Development and Policy Administration

Migrant Health Coordinator

National Association of Community Health Centers, Inc.

7200 Wisconsin Avenue Suite 210

Bethesda, MD 20814

(301) 347-0442

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(202) 365-0154 Cell Phone

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