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Article: State Inspectors Say Brunswick County, N.C., Migrant Workers Housed Poorly.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- September 11, 2003
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The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 11--BRUNSWICK COUNTY, N.C.--Hundreds of Mexicans who pick tomatoes on a produce conglomerate's Brunswick County farm are stashed in squalid rental properties that do not meet basic codes, state inspectors say.
N.C. Department of Labor inspectors have so far discovered workers in a dilapidated Duplin County motel and five rental houses in Pender County.
News & Observer reporters visited the housing last week. Six men were squeezed into one motel room. Babies lived in rooms swarming with roaches. Workers had recently moved out of a house with broken windows, exposed ...