Potato Slaves is a bilingual, multimedia investigative story on labor trafficking published on Univision News Digital in August 2020, supported by the IWMF and the Carter Center. Workers at a potato processing plant in Texas face abuse by their employers but choose to stay silent out of fear of losing their H-2A visas. Most are unaware they’re even victims of forced labor, or that the fees they’re required to pay to their supervisors for a visa are illegal. They don’t trust the authorities either, and fear retaliation for speaking out. It’s a reality faced by some 36,000 people a year in this border state.