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Read more about the article Blighted Housing: A look inside eight migrant farmworker ‘camps’

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A bedroom for migrant farmworkers at the Nightingale facility in Rantoul, Ill., on July 29, 2014.

Blighted Housing: A look inside eight migrant farmworker ‘camps’

Post author:Robert Holly / Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting
Post published:April 13, 2016
Post category:Agriculture

State inspection records highlight substandard conditions inside eight migrant farmworker housing sites.

Read more about the article Blighted Housing: Visa program requires housing inspections for non-U.S. farmworkers

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A resident walks down a hallway inside the Nightingale migrant labor camp in Rantoul, Ill., in July 2014. Companies in Illinois received approval for only five H-2A workers from October to December 2015.

Blighted Housing: Visa program requires housing inspections for non-U.S. farmworkers

Post author:Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting
Post published:April 13, 2016
Post category:Agriculture

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 farmworkers.

Read more about the article Blighted Housing: Much of Missouri migrant farmworker housing left out of inspection program

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Migrant farmworkers help plant, pick and process the food that ends up on kitchen tables. Under current Missouri policies, only housing for foreign migrant farmworkers with H-2A visas is required to undergo inspection.

Blighted Housing: Much of Missouri migrant farmworker housing left out of inspection program

Post author:Francisco Vara-Orta / Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting
Post published:April 13, 2016
Post category:Agriculture

The state and local agencies responsible for overseeing migrant farmworker housing vary from state to state. Here's a detailed look at how oversight works in Missouri.