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Farm workers live in isolated labor camps and have limited access to community services.  Farm workers also have limited access to telephones and transportation.  In addition,  local communities and government institutions do little to include farm workers in their civic events, provide services nor do they actively support farm workers exercising their rights as equal members of the community .  Compounding the problem these barriers create is the targeting of Latino farm workers by local and state police to enforce immigration related laws.   This profiling further limits the farm workers ability to freely shop, visit health clinics and even attend church services. This environment allows trafficking to continue and severely limits victims option to escape from this environment.  Farm workers, as Edward R. Murrow said in 1960 are the forgotten poor, the constituency of no one.

Farmworker Legal Services of New York, Inc. provides comprehensive legal services to farm worker victims of human trafficking, which is often called modern day slavery.  This podcast provides a brief glimpse into the work being done to combat the victimization of a vulnerable population.