Immigrants In The Food Chains

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Throughout the Food Chains film what stood out to me the most is that the majority of the workers are immigrants. Immigrants that work in hard conditions and with little pay. As well, as how those workers live, and what brought memories to me was the fact that workers live in numerous amounts to have enough money to pay rent for the trailer or the apartment which they live in. There is not enough privacy while living in with numerous amounts of people, but for these workers they have no other choice, because they barely have enough money to buy food. Working in the field like the tomato pickers work in hard conditions, and sadly to say that they do not have a future working on these type of jobs because of how little they get payed. An extra

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