The Business of Modern Slavery

LODI, Calif. -- On May 16th, a pregnant teenager pruning grape vines died in 100-degree heat. Yet, in the state of California, horses are not allowed to work but migrant workers are forced to without water.

On Wednesday, 500 farmworkers and their advocates capped a poignant, four-day march to the statehouse demanding safer conditions on thousands of vineyards and orchards.

Authorities in California -- the only state with a heat-illness standard -- suspect Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez, a 17-year-old undocumented Mexican migrant, collapsed last month because her farm labor overseer had denied employees proper access to shade & water.