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Colorado’s agricultural workforce increasingly comes from abroad

A group of workers from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, that came to Colorado through the Temporary Agricultural Employment of Foreign Workers Act, load boxes of peaches they picked that day into a cooler on July 20, 2023 in Palisade, Colorado. The workers picked and filled around 1,300 boxes of peaches that day before putting them into the cooler for storage. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
A group of workers from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, that came to Colorado through the Temporary Agricultural Employment of Foreign Workers Act, load boxes of peaches they picked that day into a cooler on July 20, 2023 in Palisade, Colorado. The workers picked and filled around 1,300 boxes of peaches that day before putting them into the cooler for storage. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
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The food that Americans sit down to eat at their dining room table has, over the decades, increasingly been picked, sorted and shipped by seasonal foreign workers.
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