Farm Labor in the United States

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Sally Kohn: We are so used to in white america looking at immigrants as a, oh, these are people who are coming here and are settling down. But we've actually built our society on this a, you know, migrant labor force. It literally is what the entire agricultural system has always been based on. And it's very hardn that migrant labor force, eh, because, especially in the case ofa farm laborers, it's often criminalized.

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