A Mexican migrant worker who worked as a modern day slave picking tomatoes and locked into a trailer at night in the South Florida town of Immokalee, USA.  2010
Tomatoes grown in South Florida on land reclaimed from the Everglades near Immokalee.  Florida, USA  2010
Praccedes Geranimo, A Mexican migrant worker from the state of Guerrero, worked as a modern day slave picking tomatoes and locked into a trailer at night in the South Florida town of Immokalee, USA. His crew boss, knowing he was an alcoholic, would
Busload of migrant workers arrives at the gate of one of Immokalee's larger tomato farm in the pre-dawn, as driver awaits a crew boss to open let them enter the farm property.  Immokalee, Florida.  2010
The squalid shared kitchen of a trailer in which where up to 7 migrant workers paid US$ 350 per week to live.  Immokalee, Florida, USA. 2010
Teenage girl from Central America carefully regards a stranger waiting in a parking lot in the pre-dawn hours for buses to come from tomato farms offering day labor.  Immokalee, Florida, USA.  2010    Young women like her are exc
(L) 30 second encounter with workers in field: Tomato pickers, mostly Mexican and Central American migrant workers, wait to get drinking water from the back of a truck moments before the crew boss (facing camera in rear with mustache and wearing a d
Playing security hard ball: Signs and a security guard house warn off uninvited guests and prying eyes, threatening felony charges for trespassing at the front gate of one of Immokalee's larger tomato growers, Florida, USA.  2010  A felony
Migrant workers, mostly Mexican, Central American and Haitians, anxiously crowd van of a crew boss offering precious day labor in a year where the winter tomato crop has been decimated by a prolonged freeze.  Immokalee, Florida.  2010
An alligator, larger than an adult human, silently waits for prey on a canal dug to encircle tomato fields and drain the fringes of Everglades to make farming possible but also effectively making fields inaccessible except through easily monitored a
Shared bedroom in a trailer in which where up to 7 migrant workers US$ 350 per week to live.  Immokalee, Florida, USA.  2010
Migrant workers, mostly Mexican, Central American and Haitians, aboard a bus which takes workers from a parking lot in Immokalee, Florida to the fields where the winter tomato crop is picked in December and January every year.  Immokalee, Flori
Check cashing services on offer at market which caters to migrant workers from Mexico and Central America, Immokalee, Florida, USA.  2010
Standing room only on a Sunday at Immokalee's Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, Florida, USA. Our Lady of Guadalupe or Virgin of Guadalupe is considered the symbol of Mexico.
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