According to a 2005 survey, 53% of farmworkers are undocumented (without legal authorization), 25% are United States citizens, and 21% are legal permanent residents.
A state of fear: Human rights abuses in North Carolina’s tobacco industry
Farmworkers in the U.S. toil for sub-poverty wages under some of the most dangerous working conditions in the nation. Oxfam America and the Farm Labor Organizing Committee have completed a joint study of the tobacco industry’s impact on the human rights of farmworkers in the fields of North Carolina. Read the full report here.
