Sheepherders Call for Fair Salaries and Treatment

A group of immigrant sheepherders is involved in a legal battle against ranch owners and federal labor authorities. The sheepherders accuses the ranchers of conspiring to keep salaries low and federal agencies of allowing salaries to fall to criminally low levels. Thousands of immigrants with H-2A visas, most from Latin America, work as sheepherders on ranches in the western U.S. Rubén Tapia has more.

The full story is available in Spanish.

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