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The cannabis industry’s trafficked workforce

The cannabis industry’s trafficked workforce
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For people who had spent their lives farming, the ad was a lifeline: “Farmwork in New Mexico, legal work authorization card required.” It was fall 2020, three years after Mark and Mary (not their real names) first moved to the United States from eastern China. Laid off from their jobs a few month...

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