Here’s What The Poorest Place In Florida Looks Like
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- These poor folks. But there might be a happy ending to all of this.
Danny’s cash app if you want to donate to him: $ghhhhgggg22
15 years ago, right here in this very same place, immigrant tomato pickers were treated like modern day slaves. They were held captive in nothing but rundown trailers, forced to work for very little wages, and threatened with deportation if they told anyone.
It was a practice that had been happening for a long, long time, and when it was discovered, America was shocked.
That’s not happening here anymore though. At least not to the extent that it was back then. But today, the community of Immokalee Florida has not recovered from that mess. And it is still a very poor place.
Now this isn’t going to be a typical video when I drive around and only talk about what’s wrong with the place. Instead, I’m going to try and show you the GOOD things about Immokalee. I think we’ll see that this isn’t a sob story. It actually might have a happy ending.
But let's begin with where we are. Immokalee is a smallish place of 28,000 people in south Central Florida. It’s about as far away from anyone else as you can get in this state. Driving in, you’ll see fields that go into the horizon. We’re not too far away from the Everglades, and this all used to be a big swamp, too. But it was drained, and now, this is one of the most productive regions in the nation. They call it Florida’s fruit belt.
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In 1970 (Washington state) kids 12 & up were expected and depended on to work as strawberry field pickers. Gave us an appreciation of where food we eat comes from and who puts it on our tables. To this day I have mad respect for everyone that puts time into a field providing food, no matter your station.
i grew up in walla walla in the 90’s and picked strawberries at klicker farms
Nobody from the 1970s says “mad respect” I call bs
Meh, in Seattle & Tacoma in the 1970s there was already NO FARMLAND left, and the whole Hippie movement consumed Large cities. You must be talking about Central/Eastern WA
child labor laws have existed in usa a lot longer then 1970 since the 50's its been a usa national law for kids to be in school, they even made a special police to make sure kids r in school., truant officers. 12 year old kids working... not unless they was undocumented and hiding in the fields when the g man comes to inspect work areas.. in 1986 a company in austin indiana , the american beauty canning company went out of business over child labor and illegal immigrant workers.. i know this because im old and i lived near there when it all unfolded.. americans shy away from child labor, been fighting it here and over seas for decades.
@@TheBowen747LOL here yes overses no even many democratic countries still employ child labor😂😂
Danny is awesome!!! I wish more of us could see the positive like he does!! God Bless you Danny! I hope everything you dream of works out!! :-D
I hope so too Tomas!
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Definitely! His perspective of things are awesome!!
Right Tomas I agree with you …. God Got You Danny 🙌🏾🙌🏾❤️
I live in Florida and yes Immokalee is poor but there's still less crime than in poor neighborhoods in Miami.
This shows you it's about how you were raised.
I'm white, 47 and my pops had five kids running the migrant trail. I've planted, primed and hung tobacco, picked cucumbers, oranges, grape fruits, straw berries until I was 14 and split from the house
They have it rough......and he keeps saying "we are doing good"
He is the whole definition of resilience!
People like Danny don't have much of a choice, they are from countries that the US purposefully destabilized in the name of profits. Don't forget 53 Dannys just died in the back of a truck in San Antonio, Texas. Where I live a lot of Dannys work in construction, its not easy work, not only are they paid miserable wages to build luxury highrises for white millennials they are constantly having to jump through bureaucratic hoops that keep them poor, and its all by design.
@@notverynotoriousg5674 yes we do because I'm one of them. My country of origin is on its current situation because we continue to choose the leaders who made false promises. Families comes here because they see the US as a chance to do more than in our countries is more difficult. The problem is that illegal immigration continues to feed the coyotes and narcos businesses
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resilience 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Shows that money is not everything and poverty does not breed crime, poverty is subjective. I try to tell these so called cry me a river victims this This video is proof that is all about in how you were raised. Yes Nick mentioned that the place was clean and hardly no crime. This would be a good place to invest in.
Danny is everything that’s right with America. Hard-working immigrant family doing what it takes to get by, and get ahead. Talking about people in his generation building businesses, getting better jobs, buying properties. Such a positive outlook for the future, and exactly the kind of choices that will make his community successful.
Your very right. I find it so bothersome that SOOOO many people especially those that call themselves Americans, have no clue or somehow forgot how almost all of our families, ancestors arrived many many years ago and our families were once immigrants too and that's been big part in what made America so good in many ways, with all the different people from different parts of the world there was so much we all learned from each other. And all came here in hopes of making a better life for themselves and family.
No it isn't successful, place is a dump and this guy can't form a sentence.
As an immigrant I quickly realized what a dead end job is and no way I would do what he does, but he should move to way better paying jobs are.
@@TrollinOn22s you don’t really have a choice if you illegal most ppl will give you bad pay just cause they can
@tonya8652 The Africans who were forced to become slaves did not come here with the hopes of making a better life. I don't understand why people fail to acknowledge the free labor that slaves provided in America. Afterwards, there was convent leasing and share cropping for the former slaves.
I’m actually from Immokalee. Graduated high school in 2016. Currently living in Fort Lauderdale. I’m glad I had the opportunity to leave Immokalee. Thanks to my hard working mother who works in a golf course in fort Myers. This is well very accurate. Immokalee will always be my home. Immokalee is a place that humbled your and makes you see the world totally different. Great video!
I taught the " Migrant " Workers children, at the Sixth Grade level. They were very well mannered, took their studies seriously, and gave them my telephone number; must in case they needed help with homework or their regular school work. They were delightful. They arrived in mid November & stayed through Marsh. As they headed for Michigan, for w work, every year. I did my very best, to give these wonderful children, ( whom could speak English ) ... a good education to carry them throughout the " Secondary Years" They all passed my tests and earned not only very good grades, but also my Respect ! ♥️🥇🇺🇸🎨
@Irving Shekelstein
Define “ Black kids” ?
Thank you for going the extra mile
WHO!! could speak English! And you're a teacher?
@@stanforddeplorable8013isn’t it they/who and them/whom. I always remember it using he/who or him/who, I don’t interchange they/them very often. “They all speak English” would be “who all speak English.” I think anyway.
When I was a kid growing up in Ireland, I used to go and pick raspberries during the summer vacation. A van driver from the farm where a local man grew a lot of raspberries used to come by to pick up other kids and myself. There were a few adults who picked as well. I can't remember how much we got per punnet, but I did make a few punts (back then the Irish pound or punt was the currency) doing it. Thinking about it now helps me appreciate how much our fruit and veg pickers do for us. It wasn't backbreaking like picking strawberries would be.
@@lindaschultz7900 then she could've gone on the pill, it's FREE, or hey maybe found a better man.
Well. My my.
Respect for these hardworking people. Think about them when you bite into your watermelon 🍉.
I hope they don't pee on it.
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@@rogersmith7396 you mean bougeois lol. I'm not middle class as I'm on a fixed income.
Why think about someone else when I eat what I grow
@@gretchenwenrich1011 fixed income as in government benefits?
I like that all the homes are well kept. I can see the pride. All the grass is cut everywhere.
It's been so dry, the grass won't grow.
Poor doesn’t equal dirty… or unkept:
Immokalee is beautiful.
It doesn't look bad!
Because of the humans there I think Immokalee is beautiful. Beautiful, strong, resilient, resourceful.
We love you Immokalee.
Florida also uses a lot of Prison work.
Something closely related to Slavery.
Prison is meant to respect the laws of the land. Better prisoners are working❗️
Good for punishment
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It’s done for the almost free cost of labor, ever since the abolition.
It’s the system that replaced the previous one.
This was one of the most informative videos ive seen. I appreciate your guest perspective and experience, really opened my eyes to a reality I didn't know.
90% bullshit.
@@dherman0001 Karma. You will reincarnate in that which you hate and detest in your next life.
@@makemineadouble6833 Ok cultist. Get back to bootlicking.
Nick, I think this is one of your best videos. Thank you for covering the other side of opulence and entitlement
Sorry you have to work for a living "opulence ans entitlement" is expressed and practiced when people like you support Taking cash out of the pockets of people that have earned it and give it to people that have not earned it
The guy made no sense. Sidewalks and what businesses exactly makes it so great? It's a picking town.
Jeez, 10k a year. That is really low. That’s what I make in 2 months with my job. What’s terrible is that the work is needed. If they don’t work, then we don’t have certain foods in stores.
I respect these people. They get low paid but they work and make a life from the hard work, even though they make way less than people who are able to work but now stay home to get paycheck from government right here in California.
@@mularys couldn’t agree more. As someone who works in Downtown LA, I respect the work a lot. I’ve seen a lot of people do nothing and make a lot for saying home to do nothing.
It’s free market, prices go up, job will be paid more. He is basically make worse for all workers, working on such low wage job.
Nobody forced them to work or come here.
Is that what your wife tells you every single night
No matter how rough it is in immakolee, it’s nowhere near as bad as it is in their home country, even worse wages corruption losing electricity gang members etc
look around, the USA is not too far behind "their home country" when it comes to corruption, crime and if you add cost of living the wages are crappp here too
@@YunaOrganics I don’t know if you know what you’re talking about, have you lived in a Third World country? When I lived in South America minimum wage was a dollar an hour. Everywhere you go you’re in fear of being robbed or shook down and extorted by the police. You can lose electricity and water for a whole day or two, if you get into a car accident the car insurance company will try their hardest not to pay you. Don’t get me started on the Covid restrictions like the lockdowns. If you think the USA is anywhere near close to being like that you’re smoking crack. We have it great here and I went outside every day during the pandemic in Florida.
@@joejoerobinson8724 tell that to the people in flint Michigan who don't have access to clean water or the people in Kensington who have to watch where they step to avoid needles and poop. I could go on and on. Don't even get me started on the gang culture and violence that has taken over
@@YunaOrganics Kensington is a street, Philadelphia is the town, and like most inter cities it’s crime and state government that is destroying these states. Flint is the responsibility of the state and Federal Government, this issue has been going on for years.
@@linda9918 correction- Kensington is a neighborhood in Philadelphia not a street but most of California looks just as bad as Kensington so your point is mute
Danny, you should definitely run for Mayor of Immokalee!
His message of working harder for less would not earn many votes.
Rich people use poor people because poor people need money
Danny sounded very optimistic, good luck to him
I grew up on a Dairy Farm in Wisconsin. We had field of vegetables 🥦 cabbage 🥬 🌽 🥕 etc.
WE worked very hard as children up to 19yo.
PEOPLE are lazy finding the computer 🖥 their source of work as they gain weight..ending up with major illnesses…putting a severe strain on the Medical 🏥 System.
Immokole,Belle Glades,Clewston all along Lake Okechobee ,but also Harding county has lots of poverty and so does Sanford ,Florida and many areas of the Florida Panhandle
It sounds like the parents raised him right.
Hey Nick, I've discovered your channel few months ago, I'm from Argentina, thank you for showing me the other side of the coin of many communities in America that I didn't know, also, it's great to see people like Danny who besides the situation stays positive and optimistic. Blesses for your country man!
Nobody no matter what race should subjected to slavery it's such a blight on American history
It is not slavery they can walk off anytime they want to. No one will stop them.
The video is 90% lies.
@Rhizosphere They werent citizens. There was a program established between the US and Mexico that gave Mexican citizens the opportunity to earn seasonal money in the US, and very good money compared to what they were used to. They would go back to Mexico with a lot of cash. They were fed for free and housed for free. They were not restricted to the farms. Youd see them in town at the laundromats. Churches would visit the farms and give them stuff, toiletries, canned goods, help them get medical care. They chose to come here and appreciated getting better pay and treatment than they got in Mexico. Beaten and raped at gunpoint? This video is major bullshit. This obvious child narrating the video sounds like one of those fascist Antifa lunatics.
@Rhizosphere They were never slaves. This video is horseshit.
The wealth inequality has never been greater.
that whole southern florida area is really horrible, there are reasons that employers want to keep undocumented employees undocumented, like tax evasion. it makes me sick republicans try to politicize it, like if they call them "illegal aliens" they are somehow less human and only good for slave labor. that isn't to say any agricultural area isn't full of little places like this, there is a town called "Spuds" that was full of undocumented immigrants growing predominately potatoes, they had cinderblock structures for shelter, with holes for doors and windows and tarpaulin roofs, this was still going on in the 90s. Where I grew up there's an egg farm, just the smell of that place would be enough to put anyone off of ever buying eggs again, and that people have to work there, just no words.
Things will change,Hispanics will become the majority population in the US by 2043.
@@dahe8883 A constant stream of immigrants will certainly help end wealth inequality.
So do better
@@dahe8883 speak for yourself, I appreciate his work
There are those of us who freely chose to live in Mobile Home Communities because it's Cheaper than an Apartment. My Brother and I, 59/61 years old respectively....we bought our Mobile Home, paid in Cash, $1000 each. We just have Lot rent/water and trash.
Palatka was even worse with the “modern slavery” thing. Isolated community, poor quality “dormitories” for workers, owner had “company store” and employees would owe more than they made, lots of drugs and prostitution, again to keep workers indentured. Farm owners finally went to jail.
Dishonorable mention: Pahokee in PBC…
Palatka, Pahokee, immokalee, where do these names come from?
@@NewHaven203 They're all Native American names. Palatka is Timucuan for "the crossing", Pahokee is Creek for "grassy waters" and Immokalee is Seminole for "my home".
My family lived in Palatka for a few months when we first moved to Florida. The city has so much potential, but they can’t seem to get out of their own way. I’m glad to hear they finally did something about the migrant worker bullshit. At least it’s a step in the right direction.
I think belle glades is the worse!
And I really like Palatka. Has so much potential, in my eyes.
Too hot. I’ve been down route 29 a few times years ago. It feels like you can blink and be through immokalee in about 5 mins. Route 29 is interesting because south of immakolee it’ll take you through the Everglades National Park, head north and it will take you to Route 27 outside Sebring. I don’t mind paying a few extra cents for tomatoes if these workers have a better life
The difference between Naples and Immokalee is crazy…. Like 2 different countries
I am a 17 year old currently and I happened to find this video about my town nice video. Even though we have ups and downs in the town I love it!
The reason some people, including “white” people don’t work in the fields is because they want to get an education and get a better job. I lived and worked in Immokalee for years in both ministry and education. This town is full of some really good people. Also, why did you only show the trailer communities and not the suburb areas? The town is not just trailers. Many people who come to Immokalee are migrant workers who move around 4 times a year for the work. Many people here are also illegal aliens, and have fewer opportunities for good jobs.
The town does have huge poverty. The casino is owned by the Seminole population. Like it or not, its their land. Casinos always draw crime and poverty.
But Immokalee has good qualities too. The families are strong and children are raised responsibly in much of the community. I liked living there.
He was showing all the poor people that was used as slaves how they lived
@@waterworkbyjames1522 I didn’t know we are in the 1700 hundreds
I grew up in Immokalee. Mid 70s all the way till 2007. I worked at the casino opening day. Immokalee was poor and crime ridden before it came around. The real problem was NAFTA. It brought down the income of the entire town. Mid nineties is when it really went downhill.
I'm glad people who actually lived in this area have set the record straight
This video made me so mad. This guy uses census stats which don't show what it's like when the population is migrant and they don't report taxed income and the crime rate is inflated because these people don't report to the census . Book smart not street smart. And Nick your videos showing these towns is counter productive to the community. why don't you do a video of the city you live in so the rest of us can judge your neighborhood? Yeah I thought not !
He is an American 🇺🇸 He works hard, I hope he has a wonderful life. His mother raised him right, good 👍🏻 job Mom, you are exactly what makes this country great !!
He ain't no damn american. He needs to go back to his country and their own mess and stop expecting gringos to fix their problems
I admire Dannys hard work and goal setting. I doubt he will stay in America though. I ran a rooming house in a Mexican neighborhood for a decade and knew the people well. Fully 80% of those I asked, and there were a lot, said they will go back to Mexico and retire there as they feel more comfortable in their homeland. Danny works for cash and evades income and SSI taxes. I feel he and his family have dual loyalties to two countries. I have never been comfortable with that choice. People need to choose. I am a refugee from a Communist country and I chose America 🇺🇸 from the first day I landed here.
They send money back to family in their home countries that in turn helps out with sending children, younger siblings, and nieces and nephews to school, help care for elderly parents/ family members. So it's easier said than done for them to juet choose between their home countries and the US.
Out of all the people you have interviewed about a specific area or city this definitely must like the most right person to review great video nick
Sidewalks don't make a dump better.
So if your single and prepared to pick fruit and rent a small apartment sounds like you can get by ? Tough work though ‼️ I couldn’t do it 👎🏻
@@lindaschultz7900 my son did. He quit after a few months.
Looking better than Gary,Detroit, Pittsburgh,
There's a book about that area that I read a few years ago; wish I could remember the title. The workers got so sick from the pesticides that are sprayed on the vegetable plants. Their nervous systems were just shot.
This guy makes it sound like paradise, it is not.
That happened decades ago and does not happen anymore.
The ads are a kind of bizarre, plastic-ey and superficial contrast to the lives presented in the video. It goes to show how out of touch we can be with reality.
If Danny and others like him want to come here and work their asses off (like our own ancestors did), more power to them. While our own are shuffling around, addicted to drugs.
When we had our roof done after hurricane Irma, the entire crew was Hispanic and only the foreman spoke English - at the end of the day I was talking to him near his truck and here comes a young white local guy trying to bum money off of me!!
I don't know about other areas, but I don't see any immigrants bumming around at convenience stores or pan handling at major intersections. They must be too busy trying to work for a living.
Wtf??? Wages plus only 10 cents a bucket.
I live in Australia and did seasonal picking as a teenager late 1980s.
We were paid by the hour or by weight.
Obviously picking cucumbers paid by he hour.
I worked one day picking string beans and made about $12, minus lunch and the bus fair, I made $5 that day and did
Not return.
It is hard, hot work.
Mos jobs I got paid the same as welfare but chose to work.
In Australia now we have paid accommodation for picker, a lot of them immigrants.
Fair wages, decent accommodation and some meals provided.
Heavy fines to growers whom treat workers unfairly.
See you down under.
I live in golden gate - same county as immokalee- it’s so damn sad. Collier county is one of the richest counties in Florida yet the poverty gap is NUTS. Immokalee does have a lot more job services than golden gate and Naples for teenagers in high school. Everglades city is another poor town in collier county. I’ve had to out of the state of Florida bc I just couldn’t keep up with rising cost of living and immokalee is on the path of imploding with even more poverty due to inflation
palm beach county as well. look at the difference in weakth between belle glade and wellington for instance
@@holasoyalejandro9822 oh my gosh yes Boca compared to belle glade is like two different worlds
I was thinking the same thing. Rich people will drive the costs up and the land owners will sell. It's incredible what's going on all over this state.
Best wishes to Danny and the hardworking people in Immokalee. Thanks for doing this one Nick!
I love the chickens 🐓
Show us the rundown homes. You said most of them have holes in the walls and ceiling and stuff. How would you know? You’ve been inside those homes? If so, where’s the proof?
@@redemptionhappens7725 Well said!
Ikr-I grew up in a trailer park. We didn’t have chickens but we had a gator as a mascot who would wander outside of the retention pond and walk down the sidewalks like he owned the place.
@@redemptionhappens7725 yep. I grew up in single wide . Osceola county.
Holes in the floor no lights worked
We moved up to a double wide .
Like a mansion
@@outtacloud80 we had a double wide-well maintained, lights,no holes,green shag carpet
I loved the chickens, too !
That rooster on the chain link fence is the breed used for fighting.
Yikes.
They are MEAN as hell.
I used to have some of them.
And no, I did not fight mine.
A little disappointed you did show the Immokalee State Farmer's Market, Seminole Casino Hotel Immokalee, and Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. Was happy to see Mister Taco a few times!
oh and como se llama mi amigo?
See where they make the famous brands of athletes' shoes, Vietnam, China, and some others, how much do you think the I phone costs to be made? maybe 100 dollars or so, The Chinese are on very low wages and on 12 hour shifts making them, many take their lives by jumping from tall buildings, I travel a lot and I know some famous shoes are made in Vietnam, and I personally asked a worker how much he got paid: only 300 dollars a month! I believe on a 12 hour shift! Now that is slavery! The US is mainly responsible for their wages! The market is in our own country!
A lot of people are given nice new places to live, like Habitat for Humanity, but they neglect to maintain it and before you know it, they're run down ghettos.
Dem landlords come in break windows and throw trash and junk cars all over 😆😆
@@sarahgupton2552 Well, I have visited a few of these homes and even the walls are disgustingly dirty. A gallon of white paint is cheap at Wal Mart. Depends on who occupies the place. Some of them are inspected and people are expected to keep them up,
It’s expensive to maintain a house and my place isn’t a year old.
THIS SHIT STILL GOING ON IN LABELLE, FLORIDA!!!! I live here, in Hendry County and the “trailer community” for field workers and Busses they use to transport them are EVERYWHERE. The workers are taken via large old school busses to our local Walmart once weekly to buy groceries and child care necessities....but they are forced to live in HORRIBLE conditions in trailers with 10+ ppl in each! When I drive by on CR78 it breaks my heart and when I see them at Walmart (hundreds of workers) I try to be VERYFRIENDLY AND WARM to them all!! They ARE THE HARDEST WORKERS FOR SHIT MONEY🤬
I saw this first hand yesterday! I had to investigate! WOW!!
I know what you mean!!! Don’t go to Walmart in la bell Sunday passed 12pm is packed
The man has a positive attitude and looks to a brighter future. Glass half full 👍
I lived my early life here thanks to the hard work of my relatives, and they afforded me so many good memories while I was able to start school proper. Though I moved away after a while, I still have many memories living here and visit family here every now and again. Some of its history is still news to me and I'm very pleasantly surprised you decided to cover more about this nostalgic area of mine.
What an amazing guy you interviewed here! God bless him! What a positive attitude! That's what makes the difference. I'm crawling myself out of poverty against all odds too, so I'm not just saying it! God help us all! Great interview!
These folks keeps their community clean. Hard working folks wanting to provide for their family. With the amount of hard work they do they’ll be the most healthiest when there in there elder years. My mom and dad were always hard workers my mom is 90 still traveling while her younger peers are barely walking. God bless this community.
"Poverty is just a state of mind, and certainly not permanent." This line hits hard and I wish it was a more popular opinion these days!!! Loved 😍 your FL mini series. As a native Floridian born and raised in Tampa Bay area you absolutely hit the nail on the head. I currently live in Palm Harbor a small city right in between Tarpon Springs and Dunedin just north of Clearwater. Between the FL heat, mosquitoes, cost of rent rising so fast and the unbelievable traffic I am ready to uproot and move along somewhere with cheaper rent and cooler Temps. 😎 If only I could be consulted on my next perfect place to move 😆 Keep up the great work!!!
How can poverty be a state of mind, go to Africa and tell them that!!
@@stewartcunliffe7414 this is true. However we live in a 1st world country and if you are poor here then I would review my life decisions. I'm not including disabled people or anyone that cannot live on their own due to health issues. If you are healthy you can work.
@@stewartcunliffe7414 that don’t make sense when South Africa is rich af especially with resources
comrad biden is seeing to it that there will be replacements to live in these conditions . ain't he soo compassionate.
Trumpers be like “This is nice!”
@@scherzva what’s nice? Having people actually earn their keep instead of taking from those who do and giving it to those who don’t? Yes, it’s nice
I'm thirty minutes away from Immokalee I always thought how it was weird how rich Naples Florida is compared to Immokalee when the both of them are in the same county collier county. I enjoyed going to Lake trafford in Immokalee on a boat ride to see the gators.
Thank you Nick! This was very eye opening. I enjoyed this look in to Florida, that wasn’t a tourist area. Very well done!✨
20:50 dude says he would be voting for Trump despite he doesn't like Trump. I think same reason for people who vote Biden a couple years ago. This is sad because you have to choose a relatively better one from two you don't really like.
I don't understand why anyone would ever vote for Trump. He's immoral, dishonest, incompetent. Biden is just blah, but Trump disgusts me.
I like how he mentioned Biden and the ridiculous gas prices! Trump kept gas low
The people there are much better off than all the homeless people living in California.
Dormitories I've heard of worse conditions - seems like rent and housing is always the struggle a guide from Puerto Rico announced to her tourists that a two bedroom in Seattle cost $4,000 a month
I knew immediately it was Immokalee. [ I use to live in Bonita Springs,Florida for a number of years].
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Everything is relative. There is poverty there, but nothing like parts of Guatemala or Mexico.
Belle Glades is another jewel in Florida.
It's interesting that when I saw the thumbnail preview for this video, I half wondered if this video was going to be about Belle Glade myself. I once Google street viewed Belle Glade, and that town looked really bad IMO. Now I want to street view Immokalee for myself, soon.
Just about everything in this video made my blood boil. I had to know what companies were responsible for this and I found 3 major cases: Farmworkers v AgMart - a pretty deep lawsuit regarding minimum wage violations by the company. United States v Ron Evans (and associates) - bosses of the Evans Labor Camp and the recruiters/crewleaders for the Frank Johns' Farm. And United States v Navarrete family - farm bosses for Six L's and Pacific Tomato Growers whose human rights violations are stated in this video. The Navarrete case is the one that brought national public attention to Immolalee's scandals but all of them ran slavery operations. Fun side fact, the Navarrete brothers leading the family were also in the US illegally after having been deported on felony charges.
It gets worse, the farms caught using slave labor were certified as "socially accountable" by SAFE and the FFVA, so customers who care about ending this kind of stuff probably unknowingly supported it. Another fun side fact, Frank Johns' Farm was owned by the chairman of the FFVA at the time. These operations also extended outside of Florida, primarily to Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virgina. Even now protections for farmworkers is pretty weak because the oversight bodies are set up by the companies that stand to benefit from the cheap labor.
It's hard to say exactly who these farms supply because of how much Florida produces but here are some buyers from these farms that kept coming up: Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, McDonald's, Walmart, Ahold, and Publix. There are many more but these companies seemed to fall under the most scrutiny for not thoroughly verifying working conditions on their supplier's farms.
Let's do more to shop responsibly. Money and PR is all big companies understand and they will try to trick you into thinking they're doing something positive to end situations like this when they are not.
Omggg !!!!!! Crazy
99% of people don't care, they want cheap food. Republicans run the state, they love "right to work" status. DJT was just about to make Immokolee great again. Ronny D the n@z¡ will care....lol
There was a maid for TV movie about a situation where immigrant workers were being held captive with the threat of deportation. I think they actually had stores on the site that sold food and necessities for 5 to 10 times the actual cost of it and it would be pulled from their pay. It was so bad that a lot of the workers would end up owing the farm owners money at the end of the week and would be forced to work for nothing. This kind of stuff was prevalent throughout the South and in parts of California for years. It was a big problem that was addressed in the Cesar Chavez workers movements back in the seventies. Things don't change as much as people think it's just that some people get better at hiding their evil.
It's the worst thing ever
Angel City, 1980 TV movie with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Ralph Waite, the father from the Walton's TV show
@@midnightrocker7 that's it. I remember watching that the night at premiered on television. There was some local news tie in talking about how this kind of thing was really going on and all of that.
Just read what we did to our own US citizens in one of the most classic pieces of literature ever written. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Read it decades ago and still disturbed by it.
The same guy who wrote the classic Florida cracker book “ A land remembered “ wrote angel city .
Patrick D Smith.
obsession of not paying the people who produce the proper pay...
seems like crime isnt bad?
Sad thing is these hardworking people are shamed for coming to the states to work and get accused of taking “american jobs”🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
LOVE the chickens....
BTW --- that rooster that was on the chain link fence is the breed that is used in fighting.
Some Hispanics like that sort of thing.
Fighting dogs and chickens is a felony now.
Immokale and Pahokee produced over 100 NFL players
I literally just made this comment!!! And some of those players are HALL OF FAME PLAYERS!
I think Trump grew on a lot of us ❤️
Be honest.. trump was the LEADER who CHAMPIONED the entire fiasco!!
1. Lockdowns, not even church!. The historical SANCTUARY for mankind!!!!
2. Warp speed!. He PUSHED AND APPLAUDED THE UNTESTED ..
3. jab.. forced jabs on people.
Trump OWNS this all..!!...
Like pond scum growth?
Ruskin is a large tomato area....since I was a child yes ...in Ruskin there are a large portion of migrants working in the tomato fields ...the owners supplied homes shelters and a steady wage...migrant workers travel the country following the crops......
Finally somebody who accurately states the facts ! Thank you Ruth Harris I'm from Lithia.
Great video Nick.These people has seen hardship and they arose above.Then things started to change for the better.I wish them all luck and prosperty.I sold my rent house across the street to very nice people like these people.
These folks are in for a rough ride with inflation and the fertilizer shortage. Such a shame
There shouldn't be a shit shortage lol
Nick American people won't pick produce , They are needed , for the produce industry , Let's talk about NAFTA , Mexico ships tomatoes, into Florida , Then rebox and sorts them out then sells them on the market as an American product, in Mexico there is no FDA inspections for approved foods , and irrigation of the fields ❓❓❓
Unionize! Thank you for sharing this.
Nice to see different areas of USA. Seems like the guy has a plan and making good of himself. Only problem I didn’t like is being paid in cash daily. No federal, state taxes being contributed into our system. But I guess a lot do that .
That's the biggest problem with illegal labor. They use the infrastructure but don't contribute to it.
No social security either so he will be screwed out of retirement at an older age
@@JuanZ223 Back in the late 1980's when I was in high school, my economics class was told by our teacher not to expect social security as there was a very good likelihood that it would not be around by the time my generation retires. We aren't retired yet, and the program is barely hanging in there. At this point, if there isn't some major changes to the way that it functions, then my generation may be the last generation to see it, if we even get to see it if the predictions hold true. I've paid into it with each job that I've held, but I've been ignoring its existence because of what my teacher said all those years ago. Social security isn't even in my retirement plans.
Best of 🤞 luck to you Danny. You sound very hard working and devoted to being a good person. Good attitude in not always easy circumstances. Wish you much success in your future. 😊😊😊😊😊
Polk county . Hernando county. Broward Co . Same run down country places .
You missed Orange County.
Osceola
Where you could put all of the above counties name in front of this video. Same
I used to drive a semi truck when I lived in Florida, and we picked up produce constantly in Immokalee. I always enjoyed the people I interacted with when I was there and never had any problems. I noticed the rundown houses and stuff, figured it was a lower income agriculture area (they are very common around produce agriculture areas in California as well)...I was always curious about the town and this video was very interesting, so thanks!!!
I'm hispanic Puerto Rican from the bronx we aren't violent we just always broke.
When I went to Imokolee it was as a trucker. I’m white and only Latinos were at the packing plant. The only other white dudes were other truckers. Hard working people. Hard working people. I didn’t see any abusive behavior by anyone in 2005 but maybe it was because everyone was of the same background.
God have mercy on all USA residents, Amen.
Driven through Immokalee a few times, I actually enjoy it, reminds me of Homestead in some ways.
On the weekends these ppl come out & party on the Main Street that go’s straight through Immokalee.
The place is definitely slow paced, think they have an airport?
Some parks? Look’s like the kind of place that should build a modern day Flea Market, since all the ones in South Florida are being targeted one by one.
Now all that said?
Imagine this, I’m doing damn near the same thing, doing Golf course machine maintenance for $12 an hour through an agency these ppl in the golf course signed me through, I thought I was working directly through them, turns out you need certification of some kind.
Only difference, I’m doing this in Aventura, no way in Hell I should be, gotta quit this immediately.
Waking up 4am to be there at 6am earning peanut money till 2 in the afternoon in Miami is the most imbecile thing you could put up with.
Previous job had me at least at $16, in a warehouse for Mattress Firm.
How I landed in this position through this transition we’re going through is beyond me.
S/o to the folks Immokalee, and everything else along the way up to Tampa, those trips have been therapeutic & y’all carry that side of Florida nicely.
Danny looks high af
Fun facts: This town has produced multiple HALL OF FAME NFL Football players!!! Their nicknames in this town is Jack rabbits!!!
You're absolutely right! We're all Americans! You take good care of yourself and your family, sir! :) He is real, much appreciated.
Anyone who still supports Biden today needs to be evaluated.
EMPLOYERS: You want a job working in the fields?
BLACK PEOPLE: Hell naw! We ain't worked the fields since slavery!!! 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Bravo Nick, Great Video On This Town And Florida And It's History, Danny Sounds Like A Very Smart Guy And Very Pleasant, Loved It And How This Community Made Their Own Decisions To Change Their Lives, More Than I Can Say About Any Other City/Towns In Florida!
Danny understands that poverty is relative. Fieldwork is strenuous, but earning $10-15k annually is often more than they can earn in Central America and Mexico. They also get many free benefits here like ebt, school, med, etc. That's why they're so eager to come here.
As sorry as this place is ,it seems like it would be a much more wholesome place to raise a family rather than some inner city slum .
I lived in trailers. ,houses like this chunk of my life . This is not poor lower middle class. Not bad one. My cousin s in I e room us in another. I do think it's funny how hipsters our buying tiny homes lol
Perspective and context: May want to be honest and address why they are in Immokalee to begin with. It's because these wages and conditions are still *way* better than the countries they came from.
I live 40 mins from here in Ft Myers and I didn’t even know half this stuff
That's why I did it Chrissy
@@NickJohnson you did it nick for the shock factor and you narrated it like your exposing some hidden secrets. The truth is there are places like this but you showed why they exist. The people in these places don't pay taxes so who provides the services? The farmers and the American citizens that pay taxes. I hope you see my tag alot because I can tell your Midwest liberal ideology is overflowing in the video. Imagine if everybody where you lived didn't pay taxes and you did how would you feel if your kids went to schools that couldn't provide books or be keep clean don't you dare narrate this like some injustice that happens because of the place they live! It's the fact that you want your salad to cost 2.50 instead of 10 $ that causes this. But hey when we can afford 25$lb tomatoes then those people won't have jobs I'll be picking them instead of working 70 to 90 hours a week construction !!!!
@@jimbos2236 you act like your the only person that’s been persecuted and that your brand of suffering is exclusive. Your Intelligence must walk hand in hand with your idiocy.
FJB!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, The rich Republicans that own all these farms that mistreat these people are Biden’s fault. Makes no sense what you’re talking about.
I love this guy! He has a wonderful attitude and I’m sure his mom and dad raised him the right way. God bless him!
They are illegal which is why he said, "Parents put their property in their kid's names." Their children are citizens of the U.S. because they were born here. These are the kind of situations that happen when illegals come. Their children are educated here, etc. etc. Yes with time, they WILL get better but I doubt they will stay long enough to make the place better. It has been that way for as long as I can remember. SAD SITUATION
Great job Nick! They are inspiring down there. I would tell him that infrastructure improvements won't continue most likely if his political choices come true but who knows. He has a great attitude. He was a great find for the video.
I remember I wanted to help migrant workers in middle school by giving them goodie bags with personal hygiene products and such. I contacted many farms In plant city but didn’t want to share any information of those workers, I hope they get treated well.
That's a really poor area of Florida. Great for farming. Danny is so down to earth. Hard working man, with dreams. He sure sees how this administration is, sad. Wish him the best.
Trump was just about to make Immokolee great again, then he didn't.
@@thatguyoverthere8355 Maybe you should step up and do it since you live there.
Honest hard working people just surviving. My respect for all this good people
If picking tomatoes can produce this growth, from nothing into a being a homeowner, then there should be more of these economic activities. I'm thinking about urban homelessness, the problem with urban setting being a concrete jungle, having no options like seen in these trailer park, like rearing chicken or working at a farm picking fruit.