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During a typical day each migrant picks, carries and unloads two tons of tomatoes." For that two tons the worker can expect about $50, and annual wages of $10,000-$14,000. Wages have been stagnant for more than two decades.

"We must ensure that all life is treated with the dignity it deserves," President Bush declared

He then segued into a call to ban human cloning.

he certainly didn't talk about dignity

in Immokalee, Florida where – as Senator Bernie Sanders told me

"the norm is a disaster, and the extreme is slavery."

Here, then, is what Senator Sanders shared with me:

"It was really stunning – the likes of which I have never seen in my life. I've long been interested in workers issues. But when we talk about the race to the bottom here in the United States I would say that Immokalee, Florida is the bottom. I think those are workers who are more ruthlessly exploited and treated with more contempt than any group of workers that I've ever seen and I suspect exist in the US.