Facts About Immigrant Women Working in the U.S. Food Industry

1)The SPLC reseachers interviewed about 150 women who are either undocumented rr have spent time in U.S as undocumented immigrants like others.
2)The interviews of the undocumeneted immigrants took place from January through March f 2010.

1)The interviews for the immigrants were conducted almost exclusively in spanish.
2)The women were asked questions from standard surveys and based on their answer asked by reseachers to elaborate on their experiences.

1)There are an estimated 3 milion and migrant farmworkers emplyed in the U.S.
2)Each year in the U.S, there are an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 cases of physican-diagnosed pesticide from the immigrant farmwrokers.

1)In the mid-1990's the U.S Equal Employment Oppritunity Comission found that hundreds of women were having sex with supervisors.
2)In the interviews for the sexual harrasment, all women reported that sexual violence is a huge problem in their work enviorments.