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In Florence's Wake, Uncertainty Haunts Migrant Workers

Francisco Javier Jaramillo and Victor Chavez should be picking sweet potatoes at a North Carolina farm and sending much-needed money to their families in Mexico. Instead, Hurricane Florence has forced the migrant workers to evacuate their farm and seek refuge at a school-turned-shelter near the tiny hamlet of Spivey's Corner, where they sleep in school hallways, wait and worry. "If the sweet potato fields are flooded, we cannot work. If we cannot work, we will be sent home. We...


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