Demonstrations, Firings, Death Highlight Abuses In Farm Worker Program
Migrant workers on temporary visas who say they were fired for workplace activism are demonstrating for a colleague who died on the job. The former employees of Sarbanand Farms, in a remote Washington town, are planning a protest on Tuesday afternoon, in the wake of Ernesto Silva Ibarra’s death. Ibarra, who was 28-years-old, had fallen ill in the fields on Friday—the result of Sarabanand threatening workers with deportation if they miss three days of work, advocates of the organizers said. The hospitalization led to 70…