While Trump Talks Tough on Immigration, Mexicans Work the Farm
While Trump Talks Tough on Immigration, Mexicans Work the Farm
- While about half of US crop workers are in the country illegally, Morales and the other men have H-2A visas, which allow them to work temporarily as seasonal agricultural labourers on US farms.
“We are not violating any law here in the US,” he said. “We come to work.”
His co-worker Rafael Gonzalez Arredondo, 23, said listening to Trump’s statements about Mexico was “difficult, but we are going to show him that Mexicans are hard working people, that we are not what he says.
- While about half of US crop workers are in the country illegally, Morales and the other men have H-2A visas, which allow them to work temporarily as seasonal agricultural labourers on US farms.
“We are not violating any law here in the US,” he said. “We come to work.”
His co-worker Rafael Gonzalez Arredondo, 23, said listening to Trump’s statements about Mexico was “difficult, but we are going to show him that Mexicans are hard working people, that we are not what he says.
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