U.S. Farmers Trace Mexican Workers“ Lives

“Kerrie Baker“s two Mexican employees live above her dining room. They don“t speak English and she knows about 30 words of Spanish, but they get by with smiles and the occasional visiting interpreter to the remote, upstate New York dairy farm.

Baker and other farmers aren“t waiting for Congress to take up immigration reform this month ”” they“re crossing the border to understand the issue by visiting the far-flung homes of their employees.

Hispanics make up about 40 percent of all U.S. agricultural employees based on 2004 census figures, the Pew Hispanic Center said….”

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