Milli Legrain

Freelance Multimedia Journalist @mlegrain

Milli Legrain is a Washington-based multilingual journalist with a passion for immigration and Latin America. Her IWMF backed reporting on the lack of bathroom breaks for poultry plant workers in Texas was published by The Guardian in 2018 and prompted an investigation by Congresswoman de Lauro. The IWMF also backed her reporting on gang members turning to the Evangelical Church in El Salvador. She has reported on labor stories from Mexico and The Dominican Republic and -from Brazil- she wrote about police brutality in the run up to the World Cup. More recently she has written about lack of protections for migrant workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2020 she covered the US election on the ground for Telemundo and in 2016 for Univision. Her work in English and Spanish has also appeared in Folha de São Paulo and The Rio Times (Brazil), Deutsche Welle (Germany), El Mundo (Spain), Proceso (Mexico), The Christian Science Monitor (US).

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Los granjeros siguen fieles a Trump. Pero algunos están cambiando de opinión

“Siempre hace lo mismo. Te lastima y luego te da dinero para que te quedes callado”, se lamenta un agricultor que apoyaba al presidente y ahora le critica tras la guerra comercial con China. En…
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Revealed: Restricting breaks keeps poultry industry workers living in fear

At Sanderson Farms in Texas, workers report being reprimanded for bathroom breaks and increasing pressure to increase productivity Poultry processing facilities, such as Sanderson Farms in Texas, are notorious for high turnover rates. Photograph: Milli…
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God vs. gang? For some ex-gangsters in El Salvador, rehab happens at church

-Wilfredo sits on a plastic chair inside Eben Ezer church, nestled in a gang-controlled neighborhood of El Salvador’s capital. It’s not hard to see why he’s a leader at the church: charismatic, completely bilingual, and…