. >> reporter: like others in the area, harry phillips has thtten around the shortage of american workers a migrant workforce, hired season after season, and brought legally to the u.s. on h-2b visas., in the pase visas were issued on a first-come, first-served basis, but the department of homeland security switched to a lottery system. which means if i'm crab compa "x," a laura is crab company "y," we apply. and if i'm selected in the lottery, i'm able to get all of my visas. if laura is not selected she gets non of her visas. >> sreenivasan: got it. >> so there were a number of crab housesn hoopers island who of who had no workers at the height of their season. >> sreenivasan: so, laura, how do you make this into. interesting when you do your research, where you try to fig outer where to go >> it was tricky because one of our main characters, harry phillips, had no workers. so what do you film? >> empty bags? >> i basically filled an empty room where there was a table and no people and that wasis story, that he needed those workers in order to make, you know, his business work. >> gl wh

harris, this time around. and the big question, phillip, how was this guy allowed to be working on an election?re was -- he had -- he was a convicted felon for insurance-related crimes, and then in 2016, there was this "this american life" story. >> and there's no good answer. the names just read as having witnessed that thing were jessica dallas and sandra dallas, relatives involved in this operation. it's mind-boggling. and we saw it in the primary. there was some great data pulled by michael mcdonald who looked at the absentee vote in the same county in the primary, a primary which harris won as a surprise over an incumbent, pittinger. and the absentee ballot favored harris in that county by something like 427-17. i mean, those were the sorts of numbers -- >> that doesn't happen. >> of course not. absolutely not. unless kim jong-un is running for re-election, those sorts of numbers don't happen. why this was allowed to happen again in the general is just mind-boggling. >> because it's the feature, not the bug. him being hired was for apparently the skill set. you saw it at work in the primar

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