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What’s the status of the people who grow our food?
byIndiana Public Media
“In the first Trump administration, about 350 thousand people from Central America or Mexico were given these H2A visas to come in temporarily with labor contractors. And many of them seem to have overstayed their visas because their labor is needed. We can’t pick the crops in this country without them.”
This week on the show, we welcome back geographer Elizabeth Cullen Dunn. She is the director of the Center for Refugee Studies at Indiana University and we’ll talk with her about how changes in federal policy, especially around immigration affect our food system, including prices at the grocery store.
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