They're just starting to get electricity back on. The water source for the city as well as the surrounding suburbs is contaminated. We don't have drinking water.
People
Ramos-jim
01:26
They don't read English, they don't speak English, and everything that's running in the newspapers here is in English, and it's saying, "Don't drink the water. " Again, it's not just Des Moines; it's all over the state that this flooding's happening. So it's all over that they're having these problems.
People
Ramos-jim
01:50
We have right now 800 to 1,000 migrants that are in the state awaiting the possibility of work. A lot of the companies have put them in hotels or motels, so they'll be sitting in the motels with time on their hands or no income and trying to survive. But there's only so much you can do with all the water that's out there.
Latino USA 14
00:00 / 00:00
01:01 - 01:11
They're just starting to get electricity back on. The water source for the city as well as the surrounding suburbs is contaminated. We don't have drinking water.
Ramos-Jim
United States--Iowa--Des Moines
Proteus Project
Migrant Legal Action Program
Employment
Agricultural laborers
Natural disasters
Working class
Immigrants
Interviews--Community leaders
01:26 - 01:42
They don't read English, they don't speak English, and everything that's running in the newspapers here is in English, and it's saying, "Don't drink the water. " Again, it's not just Des Moines; it's all over the state that this flooding's happening. So it's all over that they're having these problems.
Ramos-Jim
United States--Iowa--Des Moines
Proteus Project
Migrant Legal Action Program
Employment
Agricultural laborers
Natural disasters
Working class
Immigrants
Interviews--Community leaders
01:50 - 02:13
We have right now 800 to 1,000 migrants that are in the state awaiting the possibility of work. A lot of the companies have put them in hotels or motels, so they'll be sitting in the motels with time on their hands or no income and trying to survive. But there's only so much you can do with all the water that's out there.