New: my first investigation with @MSTODAYnews. I spent the last eight months untangling a complicated truth happening on Delta farms. Black workers are being pushed out of jobs as white South Africans come into the state on work visas. mississippitoday.org/2022/06/29/del…
I found five farms that paid their local (largely Black) workers less money per hour than foreign workers who came in on H-2A visas. This is against the rules. But even those farms caught face minimal consequences. (The fines don’t come close to equaling how much $$ they saved.)
@sara_dinatale @MSTODAYnews Thank you for your reporting. I guess we’ll keep seeing this as long as the fines are cheaper than the amount saved from breaking the rules.
@sara_dinatale @MSTODAYnews Numbers and reality can be two different things, in your investigation did you gauge the productivity of the visa holders verses the locals? I’m not sure what “white” part has to do with anything, your saying the South African men beat out the African Americans?