IRE Radio Podcast | America’s Exploited Guest Workers

All across America, you can find foreign guest workers peeling crawfish, setting up carnival rides and trimming trees. But the visa program that legally brings them here is rife with problems. On this episode, Ken Bensinger and Jessica Garrison take us through their BuzzFeed News investigation into H-2 visas, a program that condemns thousands of workers to abuse and exploitation. 

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EPISODE NOTES

Looking for links to the stories, resources and events we discussed on this week's podcast? We've collected them for you.

• Read BuzzFeed News’ series on H-2 visas: “The New American Slavery,” “All You Americans Are Fired” and “The Coyote.”
• Read what members of Congress had to say about BuzzFeed’s findings on the H-2 visa program 
• Explore the data and analysis supporting several passages in the story “All You Americans Are Fired.”
• Listen to BuzzFeed News Data Editor Jeremy Singer-Vine talk with IRE’s Daniela Vidal about his work on BuzzFeed News' series on foreign guest workers. Jeremy explains how he worked with different data sets and why the news organization made their data and analysis available to the public on GitHub.

CREDITS

Daniela Vidal reported and produced this episode. IRE Web Editor Sarah Hutchins edits the podcast. We are recorded in the studios of KBIA at the University of Missouri.

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