Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
Leaving Their Kids Locked Up (Excerpt from ‘The Fruits of Cheap Labor’)
Remember this next time you are thinking about your first world problems like getting a thread locked 
VICE
Published on Aug 20, 2015
Watch the full documentary: http://bit.ly/1TVIJX9
In northern Mexico, farm workers who pick produce bound for US supermarkets earn as little as $7 a day. They follow the harvest, traveling between the states of Sinaloa and Baja California as internal migrants in their own country. With daycare not an option, children join their parents on the job, sometimes working in 100-degree heat.
In this excerpt, VICE News visits a slum serving as an illegal hotel, where day laborers leave their children unattended as they head out to find work in the farmlands of Sinaloa.
Read: Mexican Laborers Want Americans to Know Who Picks Their Fruits and Vegetables - http://bit.ly/1hsteFf
Watch: The Way Americans Eat - The Business of Life (Episode 8) - http://bit.ly/1MW5K6Q
Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News
Check out VICE News for more: http://vicenews.com
