Europe’s fruit and vegetable farms depend on the work of migrant day laborers. But many pickers can’t afford housing so they live in plastic huts near the farms. Gerry Hadden reports from the town of Almeria, Spain, that local governments have tried to remove these settlements, and move people to shelters far from the farms, but they keep building back.
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