Poor "Human Rights Conditions" for Florida Farm Workers

About a week ago, 9 different human rights groups (including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and Oxfam, America among others) submitted to the Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Mr. Santiago A. Cantón, a letter concerning the "human rights conditions" of Floridian farm workers. The letter revealed that at least 1000 workers have been subjected to forced labor/ slavery and when not being forced to work, the laborers are often paid far below the minimum wage (between $2500 and $7500 even though the poverty line was recently defined as $9310 for a single-person household). Additionally, about 83% of these laborers have no healthcare and, not to mention, the working conditions are often less-than-adequate. Hopefully, the letter they submitted will help expose and relieve many of these human rights violations.