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On Sunday, Jan. 19 hosts IAN STEWART and GRETA NEUBAUER spoke to four of Vermont's migrant workers.
Estimates put the number of migrant workers in Vermont at 1,500. For those migrants the long, dangerous trail across the southern border and up to the Green Mountain State isn’t the end of their troubles. The threat of deportation looms even as they form an integral part of Vermont’s iconic dairy industry.
This weekend in the first annual Student Symposium at the Rohatyn Center organized by Molly Stuart and Fernando Sandoval, their rights and struggles were at the center of the conversation. Four of the workers – Jose, Lorenzo, Danny and Jose, who all work on farms in the State – spoke with us recently about their experiences, their work with the Vermont-Based organization “Migrant Justice” and what changes they’d like to see in America’s evolving relationship with its immigrants.
