Latino immigrants who work on New York's dairy farms, and the dairy farmers who hire them, live in legal limbo. The work on dairy farms happens year-round. But there’s no year-round agricultural visa program. So hundreds, perhaps thousands, of dairy farm workers exist in the shadows.
A girl shared her working experience at a dairy farm. she'd spent a year living with rats, cockroaches, and bedbugs that she said made her skin break out in hives.
Adding "permanent" farmworkers to the H-2A visa program would mean regular health department oversight of employee housing on North Country dairy farms.