Following a Way of Life: U.S. guest-worker program brings father and son to work in North Carolina fields
Tagged: family, Mexico, North CarolinaPosted on: July 1st, 2007“Mario Olmos Martinez grew up in Mexico tagging along with his father to electrical jobs, learning a trade even as the work grew scarce. Sometimes his father could buy nothing but beans for the family; a day’s worth of milk cost eight precious pesos they rarely had.
Then came this year, when Martinez, 20, traveled a thousand miles to join his papa on a new job, this one among the vast sandhills of southeastern North Carolina, tending fields of strawberries, squash and melons.”
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