US Child Farmworkers Left Behind
Photo © 2009 Romano
Certain young unauthorized immigrants, whose parents brought them to the United States as children, will be able, for now, to work legally in the United States under the Obama administration’s deportation deferral program.
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Hundreds of thousands of children, as young as 11 or 12, work in the fields. They move around with the harvesting seasons, most changing schools three times a year. Many drop out. That makes it hard to meet the education and other requirements to qualify for deportation deferral.
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