"I've been seeing pretty much every struggle that farmworkers experience in their daily lives, but magnified times 100," said Alma Salazar Young, the UFW Foundation's Georgia state director. "Everybody in South Georgia is struggling, especially in those really hard hit areas, but farmworkers are still an afterthought. Nobody has thought about going the extra mile to take care of them."
The Georgia Department of Agriculture estimates that the storm has caused billions of dollars in damage to the state's agriculture industry, affecting more than 100 farmers. Absent from many of these headlines, however, is Helene's impact on the predominantly Latinx farmworker community, many of whom are undocumented or migrant workers with temporary visas.
Hurricane Helene, which made landfall in Florida's Big Bend, has left thousands of farmworkers with nowhere to turn as they grapple with decimated homes and lost livelihoods.
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