Poultry's Price
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 (Frank Johnston — The Washington Post)
 
 
Mexican chicken worker Gerardo Cortes stands in Salisbury, Md., after a 52-hour-trip from Mcallen, Tex. He was waiting to be taken to a motel by a cabdriver sent by Mountaire Farms. He would last less than three months at the Mountaire Farms plant.

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Part 1: On Chicken's Front Line
Part 2: Immigration Transforms a Community
Part 3: Poultry's Price
Part 4: Importing Workers



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