Sentences with phrase «harvested than cane sugar»

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I didn't realize that I had 700 square miles of a parish with more than 60 of these battelas — little hamlets — where Haitian men, women and children are smuggled into the Dominican Republic every year to harvest sugar cane.

I discovered the people harvesting the sugar cane with the hatchet and machete were being paid less than 80 cents per ton of sugar cane harvested and they were not paid in money, they were paid in vouchers that could only be redeemed at the company store.