beckstir01
42-15826900
09 Aug 2005, Sampson County, NC, USA --- Children at a migrant camp watch television inside their trailer home. Undocumented migrant farm workers, mostly from Mexico and Latin America harvest over eighty percent of crops in the United States. This, as the debate over illegal immigration and what to do about it continues. They live in impoverished camps, and travel from crop to crop, working ten or twelve-hour days in the fields of America's agricultural heartland. Very often they are paying off large debts to smugglers who got them into the country. On days when there is no work, lacking transportation, they have little to do but sleep and lounge around, waiting for another day's work. --- Image by © Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis
42-15826900
09 Aug 2005, Sampson County, NC, USA --- Children at a migrant camp watch television inside their trailer home. Undocumented migrant farm workers, mostly from Mexico and Latin America harvest over eighty percent of crops in the United States. This, as the debate over illegal immigration and what to do about it continues. They live in impoverished camps, and travel from crop to crop, working ten or twelve-hour days in the fields of America's agricultural heartland. Very often they are paying off large debts to smugglers who got them into the country. On days when there is no work, lacking transportation, they have little to do but sleep and lounge around, waiting for another day's work. --- Image by © Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis