Carolina Public Press, December 12, 2023: Migrant farmworkers in NC face a challenging system…
Migrant farmworkers in NC face a challenging system by Claudia Rivera Cotto and Grace Vitagolione, Carolina Public Press, Dec 12, 2023
“Eleazar was 24 in 2014, when he began working seasonally with a H-2A visa for temporary farmworkers at a tobacco farm in Benson, North Carolina.
Eleazar, who requested that only his first name be published for fear of retaliation, lived in a bunker with 49 other workers, without a cooling or heating system.
The now 33-year-old described how workers often suffered illnesses that they blamed on continued exposure to nicotine in the tobacco, as well as symptoms from heat in the fields.”