AP, University of Maryland
In this image for the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism, a Lindy's worker carries crabs and corn onto a loading dock April 21, 2021, in the company's Woolford, Md., location. The company on Chesapeake Bay hires local and migrant workers to process live crabs, crab meat and oysters.
Despite the pandemic, more than 12,000 workers received U.S. approval in the last fiscal year to leave their homes in Mexico for jobs in American seafood processing plants. Yet the federal government did not establish COVID-safety rules for their bus travel or require virus testing.