In 1962, the Migrant Health Act was signed by President John F. Kennedy authorizing the delivery of primary and supplemental healthcare services to migrant farmworkers, resulting in the Migrant Health Center program.
This is when farm workers were finally able to get the benefits they deserved and become equal to all workers in America because without them we wouldn't have the fresh fruits and vegetables in our grocery stores
An estimated 17 million Americans support the grape and lettuce boycotts of this period (United Farm Workers).
Many took part in this protested because it has been a bog issue in America for decades at this point.
Migrant workers are at increased risk for contracting a variety of viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic infections. They are approximately 6 times more likely to have tuberculosis than the general population due to their work and living conditions
They are exposed to so much more diseases and health conditions simply because of where they live and where they work yet weren't given any health insurance or benefits.
According to the Farmworker Advocacy Network, 40 percent of farmworkers nationally are depressed and 30 percent experience anxiety.
Being a farm worker is something that causes a lot of stress and anxiety for these people for many reasons and this was something that was never acknowledge for all the worker coming into this country.
Driven by the Great Depression, drought, and dust storms, thousands of farmers packed up their families and made the difficult journey to California where they hoped to find work
Many would also have to go across the country to be able to get to the fields to make money picking and growing crops
. When potatoes were ready to be picked, the migrants needed to be where the potatoes were. The same principle applied to harvesting cotton, lemons, oranges, peas, and other crops.
They would have to follow the crops around the state so they could be able to make the money they needed
The working hours were long, and many children worked in the fields with their parents. Working conditions were often unsafe and unsanitary. Migrant workers had to follow the harvest of different crops, so they had to continue to pack up and move throughout California to find work.
Life as a migrant worker not only was long hours , very little pay, and unhealthy conditions, but many also would have to move around and follow the crops so it was a lot of traveling as well.
over 20 percent of small public water systems deliver water with nitrate levels that far exceed federal health limits. As a result, residents in Tulare County in particular face reproductive health issues at levels significantly higher than elsewhere in California.
This is something that also effects women and their reproductive systems so it can effect their unborn children as well and lead to a miscarriage
San Joaquin Valley accounts for over half of California’s agricultural production and, as a result, has the highest rates of drinking water contamination in the state. Excess manure and fertilizer runs off into groundwater, where it can cause algae blooms or percolate down into aquifers, contaminating well water and other water systems in the process
It is unfair and not ok that these people who pick or crops and are the reason we have fruits and vegetables on the shelves are the most at risk when it comes to the water conditions. And not just them also their families and the people who live in the area
Proportionate mortality in the farm workers was significantly elevated for respiratory tuberculosis, malignant neoplasms of the stomach, biliary passages, liver and gallbladder, and uterine cervix, diabetes mellitus, cerebrovascular disease, cirrhosis of the liver, and "other diseases of the digestive system."
This shows how all these problems from working in the fields and doing labor work for hours upon end can cause very damaging issues that could leas to an early death.
In the months between my sexual assault and his capture, Martinez raped, disfigured, and bludgeoned to death Sophia Castro Torres, a soft-spoken Mexican migrant who sold Mary Kay cosmetics and performed farm work. Martinez stole her green card, kept it as a trophy, and threw it in a trash can once it bored him.
This shows how not just in Mexico does this happen but even in America, and it seems to be immigrants that they target the most.
México: bad. USA: good.
This is a good simple explanation of what this author tried to make Mexico seem like in her book when it can be far from the truth.
The United States of America became my grave.
This is a very powerful statement after she explained how it doesn't matter if she is in Mexico or not because we still are targeted here in America.
One of the things I’ve been trying to convince people for the past year and a half is that the only viable literacy solution to web misinformation involves always checking any information in your stream that you find interesting, emotion-producing, or shareable. It’s not enough to check the stuff that is suspicious: if you apply your investigations selectively, you’ve already lost the battle.
I agree with this because when you are c hosing and picking exactly which quote you want to use and the emotion or message you are trying to get across should be fact checked, because you never know when something could be false and was make up by someone just to grab the readers attention. Which could also lead to our point not coming across the way we intend it to.