{"id":57651,"date":"2024-04-04T08:55:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T08:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=57651"},"modified":"2024-04-04T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T08:55:08","slug":"migrant-fruit-pickers-saddled-with-debts-of-up-to-5500-to-come-to-uk-through-government-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/04\/migrant-fruit-pickers-saddled-with-debts-of-up-to-5500-to-come-to-uk-through-government-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrant fruit pickers saddled with debts of up to \u00a35,500 to come to UK through government scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53533\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pickers-300x186.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pickers-300x186.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pickers-770x477.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pickers-1024x635.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pickers-360x223.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pickers.jpeg 1034w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">M<\/span>igrant fruit pickers coming to the UK to work on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/farms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">farms\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/migrant-worker-domestic-care-fruit-picker-visa-b2510710.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">are being saddled with debts of up to \u00a35,500 before they arrive<\/a>, a report into the seasonal worker visa scheme has found.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/migrant-fruit-pickers-saddled-with-debts-of-up-to-5-500-to-come-to-uk-through-government-scheme\/ar-BB1l0S6L?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=41b584628bc643488531eb38eced63c9&ei=23\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Migrant fruit pickers coming to the UK to work on\u00a0farms\u00a0are being saddled with debts of up to \u00a35,500 before they arrive, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-immigration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pickers.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57652,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57651\/revisions\/57652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}