Migrant workers can be defined as immigrants seeking asylum from unfavorable political regimes and environments who are working hard to provide for their families and contribute their services and talents where their rights and humanity are protected by justice. They seek the American dream. 

Upon entering the United States, these people find low paying jobs and even programs where farm owners provide less than standard living conditions in exchange for handling the land and harvesting crops, particularly in Immokalee. 

These substandard living conditions house multiple families in small shared quarters, where they don't receive enough pay for food and often do not even have the resources to leave the property for their needs. Generally, these workers are denied fair working conditions and living wages. 

The current progress and infrastructure of the United States is a product of migrant labor and involvement from Europe, to South America, the Caribbean and all of Asia.  Let’s continue helping our foreign neighbors overcome the plight of injustice, oppression and supremacy that’s so coded into our daily lives as “the norm.”

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Proposition for change:

• regulating farm owners and staffers, as far as staffing and facility practices, to ensure that farmhands are free operating components of a business that show up and leave according to fair employment practices and agreements.
• Advocates for farmhands that require monthly and quarterly audits on farm operations and employee wellbeing.  Partnerships with social workers and churches should be forged to monitor the safety and well-being (mental and emotional) of migrant workers and their families, with special attention given to working conditions, living conditions and access to resources. 
• Inspections to ensure that farm owners have the necessary workplace practice OSHA posters posted for their farmhands to contact the proper agencies in case of conflict or danger to safety due to working conditions/ management.