Don’t Bash Immigrants With Your Mouth Full
There is no one in this country who eats unless immigrant workers provide the food.
From the ground to the grocer, low-wage immigrants, refugees, and other workers of color are the very backbone of the nation’s food system. There is virtually nothing that is produced, picked, processed, packaged, and purveyed that does not have their touch. 62% of the workforce in the nation’s meatpacking and poultry processing industry is Latino/a and Black. 77% of the hired crop labor force is Latino/a, with 75% born in Mexico and 2% from other Central American countries. 40% of some 13,000 hired dairy farm workers in Wisconsin alone are immigrants. The largest employer of immigrants in the entire nation is at the other end of the food chain, in the restaurant industry. Read more
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