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…where I hate reading the newspaper. A couple come to the US from Guadalajara, Mexico 20 years ago to help an ailing relative, scratches and scrapes to make it here, pays their own way, pays taxes, starts a business, buys a home… During that time, they had three more children and got driver’s licenses and [...]
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Our strawberries are ripening, but the workers aren’t there. Immigration Protest Day left the fields silent and empty. I hope the point is one the politicians get. Technorati Tags: immigration reform, farming, farm workers
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Regarding the scandalous treatment of farm workers in Somis in the 1980′s: In the end, the Mexican laborers got a good hard look at how America does and does not work. The government fought on the side of men who were in this country illegally because slavery is not what this country is about. The [...]
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