Illegal immigration It is night when the day begins by (Mother Jones November/ December 2004) explains how hard the life is for the Mexican people who migrate to America for a better life.
In California San Joaquin Vicente and his wife Isabel wake up early in the morning. She start making some food for the following day and he get ready for going to work. Also the bakeries open early because people need to take a coffee and go to their work. A lot of workers work in the farm and Isabel protect her skin from the sun and she start working too. Vicente pick a lot of cherries and he work more than seven hours with a fifteen minutes break. He has to be very fast because they pay him regarding to how fast he pick the fruits. …show more content…
Vicente’s family are lucky because they have a one room house and the size is like a garage and their daughter sleeps on the floor or they are all sleeping on one bed at night. They pay 280$ per month. Another lady that her name is Isabel has the same situation but she pays 510$ per month. Families usually share a room with some one else to decrease their payment but Isabel is a mother of three children and she is not able to do that. Another woman pays 650$ for renting a trailer in Sycamore that her bathroom is broken. In the next trailer a women live with her husband and her children they only rent the living room and they pay 290$ per month. The trailer has a broken window. She is hoping that she can buy something next year. They get paid minimum wage and they are so behind because they have to pay the Coyote that brought them in the USA. Their instruments are so expensive too. 28 percent of the people who live in Arvin don’t have a job in the best of times. They charge workers for tools and for the ride to take them to their fields or taking them back home. Mexican never complaints because they are coming in USA illegally. During the summer and hot weather. Mexican music is loud and hearable from the neighbors. Vicente’s children are playing in the yard. Isabel explains why she doesn’t want to return to Mexico because of her children. She doesn’t want her children to work in the fields and go through the way that she went. On Saturday fathers and mothers take their sons to the field to collect some oranges and through them in 60 pound bags. Also they take their daughter to cut the grapes in the very hot weather. On Monday children getting ready to go to the school with bus.Their math and their English are not good. No one do call sick. Everyone is present at work all the time and no-one
In California San Joaquin Vicente and his wife Isabel wake up early in the morning. She start making some food for the following day and he get ready for going to work. Also the bakeries open early because people need to take a coffee and go to their work. A lot of workers work in the farm and Isabel protect her skin from the sun and she start working too. Vicente pick a lot of cherries and he work more than seven hours with a fifteen minutes break. He has to be very fast because they pay him regarding to how fast he pick the fruits. …show more content…
Vicente’s family are lucky because they have a one room house and the size is like a garage and their daughter sleeps on the floor or they are all sleeping on one bed at night. They pay 280$ per month. Another lady that her name is Isabel has the same situation but she pays 510$ per month. Families usually share a room with some one else to decrease their payment but Isabel is a mother of three children and she is not able to do that. Another woman pays 650$ for renting a trailer in Sycamore that her bathroom is broken. In the next trailer a women live with her husband and her children they only rent the living room and they pay 290$ per month. The trailer has a broken window. She is hoping that she can buy something next year. They get paid minimum wage and they are so behind because they have to pay the Coyote that brought them in the USA. Their instruments are so expensive too. 28 percent of the people who live in Arvin don’t have a job in the best of times. They charge workers for tools and for the ride to take them to their fields or taking them back home. Mexican never complaints because they are coming in USA illegally. During the summer and hot weather. Mexican music is loud and hearable from the neighbors. Vicente’s children are playing in the yard. Isabel explains why she doesn’t want to return to Mexico because of her children. She doesn’t want her children to work in the fields and go through the way that she went. On Saturday fathers and mothers take their sons to the field to collect some oranges and through them in 60 pound bags. Also they take their daughter to cut the grapes in the very hot weather. On Monday children getting ready to go to the school with bus.Their math and their English are not good. No one do call sick. Everyone is present at work all the time and no-one