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09 Aug 2005, Sampson County, NC, USA --- A young teenage undocumented migrant farmworker tries to pass the time at a labor camp during a slow few days in the harvest when there is no work for them. As it often happens, they become virtual prisoners of the labor camp, with nowhere to go and no way to travel. 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. --- Image by © Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis
42-15826779
09 Aug 2005, Sampson County, NC, USA --- A young teenage undocumented migrant farmworker tries to pass the time at a labor camp during a slow few days in the harvest when there is no work for them. As it often happens, they become virtual prisoners of the labor camp, with nowhere to go and no way to travel. 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. --- Image by © Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis