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Community Organizer: Wildfires Expose Language, Insurance and Relief Gaps for Indigenous and Undocumented Farmworkers
Summary
Genevieve Flores Haro of the Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project told the Assembly that undocumented and indigenous farmworkers bear disproportionate health and economic burdens during wildfires and urged expanded language access, permanent state disaster funds and stronger workplace protections and inspections.
Genevieve Flores Haro, associate director for the Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project (MICOP), told the Assembly Health Committee that Latine, indigenous and undocumented farmworkers suffered disproportionately during recent Southern California wildfires because of systemic language, income and legal barriers.
"Undocumented immigrants and indigenous farm workers are among the most marginalized in our society," Flores Haro told the committee. She said many indigenous workers "do not speak English or Spanish, only their native language like Mixteco or Zapoteco,…
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