Leaving Their Kids Locked Up (Excerpt from ‘The Fruits of Cheap Labor’)

Watch the full documentary: In northern Mexico, farm workers who pick produce bound for US supermarkets earn as little as $7 a day. They follow the harvest, traveling between the states of Sinaloa and Baja California as internal migrants in their own country. With daycare not an option, children join their parents on the job, sometimes working in 100-degree heat. In this excerpt, VICE News visits a slum serving as an illegal hotel, where day laborers leave their children unattended a