41. These reports also detail numerous incidents in which migrant farm workers died when overcrowded vans crashed while their foremen were driving them to the fields. 42. This first novel is about a family of Mexican-American migrant farm workers caught in a life of poverty and back-breaking labor. 43. Though he worked long hours for little pay, Feldman was neither a sweatshop laborer nor a migrant farm worker. 44. Today, Resendiz is viewing the plight of the migrant farm worker from a new perspective. 45. U.S. Rep. Saxby Chambliss, R-Moultrie, has introduced a bill that would create a new migrant farm worker program for legal immigrants. 46. Viramontes, who is the daughter of migrant farm workers and has worked in the fields herself, is a professor of creative writing at Cornell University. 47. A finance major at the University of Texas at Brownsville, Salinas is the son of migrant farm workers and the first in his family to go to college. 48. After the flood damaged the trailers they lived in, many migrant farm workers said they plan to return to Mexico because there will be fewer crops to pick. 49. Antonio Santos, one of hundreds of migrant farm workers in the area for the harvest, said he and others were returning to Mexico. 50. The family became migrant farm workers, heading north each spring. |