Across the United States, more workers are collapsing from dangerous heat, reported The Washington Post. But now, new research shows exactly what’s happening inside their bodies. In Florida, a team from Emory University asked farmworkers to swallow pill-sized thermometers that tracked their core temperature during long, hot workdays. What they found confirms what workers have…
For the last 16 years, Isabel has worked harvesting carrots, lemons and grapes in the Coachella Valley. The undocumented mother of three — who, like others The Times spoke with, declined to give her last name out of fear for her family’s safety — says the heat in recent summers has been increasingly difficult to…
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Tuesday that there will be “no amnesty” for agricultural workers from the Trump administration’s efforts to deport all immigrants in the country illegally. The farm sector has warned that mass deportation of farm workers would disrupt the U.S. food supply. The administration of…