Migrant Workers Arrested

A group of people are sitting in an empty lot in Immokalee. A man in a van or truck picks them up and after a couple hours, they arrive at a field in Polk County, where they have been brought to harvest saw palmetto berries. As they fill their bags with small orange, green and deep blue berries in the pre-fall Florida heat, a gentle whirring rises in the distance and gets louder.

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