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Life As A Migrant Worker

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Migrant workers are people who come into the United States to find work. They are here to give their families a better life, because they know that there is always field work where they can get jobs at. I believe that there are still so many migrant workers in our time. Many come in from Mexico looking for work and many of them do find it still. The circumstances and the way they are treated has changed a bit than before. From reading in book, many of them were treated very poorly. Many farm owners took advantage of them and made them work in horrible conditions even depriving them for basic needs. They coped with the conditions that their family members worked in by praying to their saints, or just by sticking it out. They could not do much

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