Jamaican immigrants picking apples in New York

The World

Many of the apple pickers working each fall in the Champlain Valley’s apple orchards are from Jamaica. The workers are well-known in the town of Peru in New York State, where hundreds of Jamaicans work on special visas. North Country Public Radio’s David Escobar traveled to an orchard to learn more about the men behind the North Country’s harvest.

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