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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emily Wagster Pettus

Mississippi farms pay overdue wages for favoring immigrants over local Black workers, agency says

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Forty-four farms in Mississippi exploited local Black workers by paying higher wages to immigrants who were in the United States on temporary work visas, the U.S. Labor Department said Wednesday.

The department announced it completed investigations that it began last year in the rural flatlands of the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest areas of the U.S.

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