Immigrant farmworkers make up approximately 73% of agriculture workers, with a majority of agriculture output from California, according to the USDA.
Alma is an undocumented migrant from San Martin Peras in Oaxaca, Mexico. At the age of 14, she left a life of poverty and hunger in order to survive. She now lives in Watsonville, California.She shares her first-hand experience traveling into the country to work. This is her story.
I was a little girl and we didn't have many clothes or shoes. When I was 14 years old, I decided to come here because children’s life was very sad there. I travelled with my brother. From there, the coyote, he took us there in the desert, and we walked three nights and three days, and during the day, we rested and at night we walked. Many people get tired and die in the desert. I saw human hair and human bones.We arrived in Arizona.We were packed on top of each other and there are people who are bigger than us and they are heavy, so when we got there, we had a lot of pain in our feet, we had blisters, like pus inside our feet.
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