Immokalee USA

[shirock147]

Does anyone know what happened to Mateo Diego? It was a really sad story and I would really like to know. Please leave a comment on my channel.

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If this gentleman is from Ladymoon, Alderman or East Coast Shippers and Packers, then yes, they are taking responsibility for abuses and low wages and are working with buyers and farmworkers to eradicate sweatshop conditions in their fields.

If however, this gentleman is towing the FTGE line and refusing to work with the farmworkers and major buyers, then he continues to be responsible for the conditions that make those who pick our food a labor force in significant economic distress.

[insertmusichere]

If the growers took care of the workers, why would so many of them have to go to the church for meals? Why would mothers have to find work on the side selling tamales?

This grower pretends that the problems lie elsewhere, that the growers don't have the responsibility. Are not the contractors the growers' responsibility? I challange you to ask yourself, if your supervisor was beating or threatening to beat you, would it not be your supervisor's boss' responsibility to do something about it?

[insertmusichere]

There was no argument, let alone analysis of power dynamics or worker organizing.

Don't get me started on the grower. If growers took care of "his workers" there wouldn't have been seven federally prosecuted cases of slaver in Fl fields in recent years. If they took care of the workers, farmworkers wouldn't be A labor force in significant economic distress" according to the DoL, citing farmworkers low

wages, sub-poverty annual earnings, (and) significant periods of un- and underemployment

[insertmusichere]

Thank you for including the story of the white woman married to a worker, whose family was divided because of our current tragic immigration policy. That is an important story that needs to be told.

However, the rest of this documentary was pretty bad. I kept asking myself what the point was. Was this made for white people who have never seen poor brown people before? It just seemed like some voyeristic look at poor, disenfranchised folks in a screwed situation.

[rosterking1]

I am from this place haha. who else is watching from I-town.

[hurricanefloyd1]

I grew up there back in the 80s, but I live in Tennessee now.

[choppincrop29]

right here

[Jerry2Murray]

Note who sponsors the film - La Raza, whom are fighting to give all illegal immigrants in America free health care thru Obama-man and Pelosi Lugosi. Phone your reps. Illegals don't just pick fruit, they have saturated every work space. I recently had a yard job with a white lady and she conveniently decided to give the rest of the work to illegal Guatemalans.

[LaRazzaFilms]

Correction...La Razza= Latin root word, translating to "The people". Human beings not a discriminative labeling of culture.

[Jerry2Murray]

I do not read anything about discriminating - the people work hard. The problem I have is La Raza lobbying to our goverment to provide all sorts of benefits to folks who are not legal citizens.

[choppincrop29]

55:08 farmers know that the american people wont pick a single bucket for the amount of they pay today. to the farmer i would work and pick in the feilds for 1 dollar a bucket that i pick , this would be nice (:

[kromen10]

I love when people scream "They're taking our jobs." but cant show me one documented case in where they lost a job to a illegal immigrant. I hire Americans who want to work, most of them stay for about two paychecks and then give excuses on why they cant work eight hours or on a Saturday.

[mtallicuhh]

haha, very true.

May i please ask what it is that you do? kinda business? (I'm a young aspiring entrepreneur/successful business owner) I started a business, but for now there are no employees just me

[kromen10]

restaurant (not mexican food either) LOL

[mtallicuhh]

Really? what kind of restaurant & how longs it been open/how long u owned it? to go only? franchise? sub sandwich place?

[hurricanefloyd1]

I am from a white family that used to work and live this same way.

I don't think anybody should have to work so hard for so little, but remember that before there were this many illegal Hispanic workers there were other races who did this job.

[gersoncoolight]

It's good

[martinezmichael100]

how come the american people cant find the good jobs and were stuck doing 8.50 pay then 16 two 18 an hour what up with that

[atomhart54]

This is so distorted its funny. I live and work in immokale every day. Your poor migrant worker when planting gets federal minimum wage and when picking a good worker can make 100 to 150.00 a day. Pretty good for a non english speaking drop out.

They also get free housing free clinics free transportation .

[josephpuente]

I look forward to seeing your documentary showing the world how good these migrant workers have it. You wouldn't make such assertions without being able to back it up with verifiable data would you? Do you take advantage of this free housing, clinics and transportation? Or are you parroting the same anti-immigrant propaganda as every other bigoted conservative redneck who depends on an economy that would come to a screeching halt if suddenly every migrant worker decided to call in sick one day?

[ourloveourfriendship]

seriously!! this country is so f d up sometimes. people whose only contribution to this country are 9 kids and drugs sold on a corner get free everything and working people have to pay for themselves and the losers that leech of this country.

[Shaielu]

They don't get that money every single day when picking. Plus is 100 or 150 good enough for the kind of job that they do? Would you do it for the 100 or 150 you said a good worker makes? Would you be able to do it everyday, even with the "free housing, clinic and transportation"? Honestly, I don't think so.