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Baja La Cabeza

En 2018, Diego y Mario se unieron al programa de visas H-2A patrocinado por el gobierno de EE. UU., dejando a sus familias en su país de origen, México, para cosechar arándanos en una granja en Carolina del Norte durante seis meses. No tenían idea de que estaban a punto de convertirse en víctimas del trafico de personas y que sus vidas se descarrilarían para siempre.

Published on: April 13, 2023

Government, Immigration

Head Down

In 2018, Diego and Mario joined the U.S. government-sponsored H-2A visa program, leaving their families in their home country of Mexico to harvest blueberries at a farm in North Carolina for six months. They had no idea they were about to become victims of human trafficking and that their lives would be derailed forever. In the first episode of two-part special “Head Down,” we go deep into how a visa program that brings more than 300,000 foreign agricultural workers to the U.S. every year is plagued with abuse and wage theft. All of this while the U.S. government plans to expand it.

Published on: April 13, 2023

Government

USA v. García Luna: A Story Where True Crime Meets Telenovela

True crime meets telenovela in this five-episode audio series, as two journalists share their obsession with a powerful and obscure character whose role in the so-called war on drugs has affected millions of lives in the United States.

Published on: December 9, 2022

Government, Spanish

USA v. García Luna: Una historia de crimen real mezclado con telenovela

El crimen se encuentra con la telenovela en esta serie de cinco episodios donde dos periodistas comparten su obsesión por un oscuro personaje cuyo rol en la llamada “guerra contra las drogas” ha afectado miles de vidas en Estados Unidos.

Published on: December 9, 2022

Border, Immigration

Death By Policy: Crisis in the Arizona Desert

For over a year, Futuro Investigates dug into how the Border Patrol’s decades-long “prevention through deterrence” policies have purposely created a deadly funnel, pushing migrants attempting to cross from Mexico to the U.S. into the deadliest terrain in the country, including the Sonoran Desert in Arizona.

Published on: December 2, 2022

Immigration, Spanish

Cómo las políticas públicas de Estados Unidos contribuyeron a una crisis en el desierto de Arizona

Durante más de un año, Futuro Investigates ha indagado en cómo, por décadas, las políticas de “prevención a través de la disuasión” de la Patrulla Fronteriza de Estados Unidos han creado deliberadamente un embudo mortal. Estas políticas han empujado a los migrantes que intentan cruzar de México a Estados Unidos hacia terrenos letales del país, como el desierto de Sonora en Arizona.

Published on: December 2, 2022