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Why in your opinion are many people in the state of Vermont likely to call the authorities when they encounter people whom they assume are illegal immigrants?
- In Vermont if you from different country and have different race gender you are likely call to crop because Vermont is not a big states and don’t have diverse cities. The population of Vermont is 626562, and 95 percent whites. Left over 5 percent, there are other race – Asian, African, and Hispanic etc. According to data, I can tell that there is more whites lives in Vermont than other colors. Vermont is not a big state compared with other the U.S. states. This is a states with 75 percent forest, and not development reached at rural areal. Peoples are dependent on their farm, hunting,
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Person wants to help them by teaching English language to them. May be in the future, there will be more helpful to communicate each other languages. In movie, the community member applied their thought to the state government to give them basic health care and living. Indirectly, Addison Country peoples telling to the state government that they needs lower wages worker who can work harder in their farm to run their business.

Do you think this would be such a culturally charged issue if the migrant workers were from Croatia or Poland and therefore more "European" in appearance? Explain your thoughts in detail.
- I think Vermonter will not look big issues when they were migrated worker from Croatia or Poland and other European countries. This is a cultural shocked between two unknown color who never met before in their life. Law enforcement is taking more seriously to Mexican because of culture that shock American history. They always thought Mexican’s are criminal and doing many crimes.

Do you feel as though migrant farm workers (whether legal immigrants or illegal immigrants) should be permitted to obtain a driver 's license? Why or why not? Please explain in

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