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  • His father was a Dominican migrant worker who met his mother picking blueberries in Cherryfield, got her pregnant, moved back to the D.R. to shack up with a local girl, and never looked back.†   (source)
  • She's got two little kids—her husband is a migrant. lie's in Ohio right now—he only spends three or four months a year at home, but they still get along really well."†   (source)
  • When she was seven, she decided that the migrant workers staying in their run-down houses on the south end of town lacked a nutritious diet, so she emptied the house's pantries, cold boxes, freezers, and synthesizer banks, talked three friends into accompanying her, and distributed several hundred marks" worth of the family's monthly food budget.†   (source)
  • It was the last stop on Route 66, end of the line for truckers, tourists, and migrants from the East.†   (source)
  • The area was located in the San Gabriel Valley, which for years consisted of incipient industry, farmland and migrant camps until Los Angeles stretched out fingers of suburban sprawl to the furthest reaches of the valley.†   (source)
  • It seems we had discovered where the migrant workers came to have their babies.†   (source)
  • And it was in the same spirit mainly that he got interested in the migrant labor camps not far from Duke.†   (source)
  • The house we lived in was nothing more than a shack, a barracks with single plank walls and rough wooden floors, like the cheapest kind of migrant workers' housing.†   (source)
  • I read many American novels, and recall especially John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, in which I found many similarities between the plight of the migrant workers in that novel and our own laborers and farmworkers.†   (source)
  • It is true that young rabbits are great migrants and capable of journeying for miles, but they do not take to it readily.†   (source)
  • Mattie once told me about a migrant lemon picker in Phoenix who lost a thumb in a machine and bled to death because the nearest hospital turned him away.†   (source)
  • The nurse is not there to listen in because that is the day she goes out in the field to give migrant babies booster shots.†   (source)
  • Just about all of my friends have parents who work migrant jobs, and that means that none of us are living much over the poverty line.†   (source)
  • In 2000, a rancher named Roger Barnett declared open season on migrants.†   (source)
  • Folks call 'em migrants nowadays; then they was just called pickers.†   (source)
  • They became migrants.†   (source)
  • But the closest to chaos I had ever been, except for that one bad night in Overtown, was in a little migrant workers' town on the edge of the Everglades.†   (source)
  • The purple blooms of thistles became black behind the people's houses, and migrant birds moved through.†   (source)
  • Every summer if there's a big peach crop the migrant workers flood Round Hill.†   (source)
  • It was migrant workers waiting to pick August peaches, and gardens being weeded and tended to offset the expense of winter vegetables.†   (source)
  • Immigrant is a word coined in America, for migrants who came in, rather than went out, the meaning of emigrant, which was how Europe saw it.†   (source)
  • Mr. Offenhaus was talking about the migrant labor, the orange pickers and so forth.†   (source)
  • In other cases the migrants have been driven to movement and seasonal work by poverty and terrible need.†   (source)
  • Like me, they were migrants from the east and refugees from their own community.†   (source)
  • "One of the acts of mercy," the bishop says, "is to give shelter to a migrant."†   (source)
  • The only Americans who consistently earn a lower hourly wage are migrant farm workers.†   (source)
  • As in so many other aspects of meatpacking, IBP was a trailblazer in recruiting migrant labor.†   (source)
  • Villanueva protects any migrant who runs inside the church.†   (source)
  • As migrant Jose Rodas Orellana readies to board a train in Veracruz, a man emerges from his house.†   (source)
  • The nation has about 1 million migrant farm workers and about 3.†   (source)
  • The rise of a migrant industrial workforce poses a grave threat to democracy.†   (source)
  • Another neighbor says a migrant hugged and tried to kiss one of her twin daughters.†   (source)
  • Some of these new migrants save their earnings, then return home.†   (source)
  • Long ago, Gonzalez's neighbor heard a migrant knock at his door.†   (source)
  • These migrants come mainly from Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador.†   (source)
  • We stumbled across a migrant preparing to swim north.†   (source)
  • They sound an alarm, migrant to migrant, car to car.†   (source)
  • Other times, the migrant is dead by the time they arrive.†   (source)
  • One migrant says, "I've done the most difficult part.†   (source)
  • They wage what a priest at a migrant shelter calls la guerra sin nombre, the war with no name.†   (source)
  • Father Flor Maraa Rigoni, the priest at the Albergue Belen migrant shelter, counts nineteen groups.†   (source)
  • Two nights ago, it killed a youngster he knew, a tall, skinny migrant with a cleft upper lip.†   (source)
  • A foul-smelling migrant with badly swollen feet also needed to talk to the priest.†   (source)
  • For a moment, the officer and the mayor's driver discuss the new dead migrant.†   (source)
  • A young Honduran migrant, Fernando Antonio Valle Recarte, points at the ground in Veracruz.†   (source)
  • When the boy threw the roll toward the migrant beside me, it bounced off the train.†   (source)
  • He promised to help raise funds to build a migrant shelter.†   (source)
  • As the migrant described the abuse, two police officers walked down the dirt path toward us.†   (source)
  • Enrique sees another migrant who has managed to make it around La Arrocera.†   (source)
  • Running off a migrant, he says, is like turning against yourself.†   (source)
  • The hospital pushed the penniless migrant out before he was healed.†   (source)
  • A teenage migrant standing next to me was hungry.†   (source)
  • The migrant claimed that a police officer had pushed him toward the train, causing the accident.†   (source)
  • Sometimes the ambulance workers must pry a flattened hand or leg off the rails to move the migrant.†   (source)
  • Another migrant, Darwin Zepeda Lopez, recounts what can happen in a locked boxcar.†   (source)
  • Migrant twins Jose Enrique Oliva Rosa and Jose Luis Oliva Rosa told of having been kidnapped.†   (source)
  • As the migrant jumped off the hopper to run back for the crackers, he stumbled and fell backward.†   (source)
  • They're going to hit us!" one migrant said.†   (source)
  • She describes a migrant who lost both legs but cooked for everyone in the shelter.†   (source)
  • Hours later, the Red Cross asked Cancino if he could help an injured migrant.†   (source)
  • At highway checkpoints, agents charge smugglers $50 to $200 per migrant to pass through.†   (source)
  • "Shut up!" one of the officers said, hitting the migrant with a nightstick several times.†   (source)
  • He let the migrant stay for an hour, until he was sure the coast was clear.†   (source)
  • Migrant Miguel Olivas described the meal-card black market.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, a madrina rides the train and pretends to be a migrant.†   (source)
  • A few bring bags of cement, to help build the migrant shelter.†   (source)
  • He is spared only by the intervention of a migrant MS from his old neighborhood back home.†   (source)
  • Padre, I don't have a shirt," a migrant says.†   (source)
  • One migrant was crushed between the train car and a bridge the train was crossing.†   (source)
  • Each day, at least one new wounded migrant passes through the shelter's lime green doors.†   (source)
  • Alma asked the migrant to wait and started to usher in the future mayor.†   (source)
  • Another migrant was found dead downstream.†   (source)
  • I was on hand when the migrant Isaaas Guerra was caught and described his desert ordeal.†   (source)
  • Her son shares the middle bed with a migrant.†   (source)
  • They saw many migrants injured as they tried to escape capture by the police.†   (source)
  • The neighbor started throwing food to migrants as they rolled by on the train.†   (source)
  • Some of the shelter workers tell of migrants hit by bullets.†   (source)
  • Other migrants, frustrated by the train's pace, disconnect the brake line on purpose.†   (source)
  • The police crackdowns mounted, and more and more migrants came to the church.†   (source)
  • The papers the migrants were shown were filled-out applications, nothing more.†   (source)
  • It teems with violence, prostitutes, and destitute migrants.†   (source)
  • Some of the migrants are trying to run, stampeding among the graves.†   (source)
  • He urged the migrants to step forward and report abuses.†   (source)
  • Fieldworkers wave their machetes and cheer the migrants on: "Que bueno!"†   (source)
  • He is the migrants' strongest advocate in Nuevo Laredo.†   (source)
  • El Gusano de Hierro, some migrants call it.†   (source)
  • To help the migrants look more presentable, he brings a haircutter to the church.†   (source)
  • Migrants huddle between the cars or with strangers, seeking protection from the biting wind.†   (source)
  • Often, she says, she gets up to feed migrants on the 1:30 A.M. and 3 A.M. trains, too.†   (source)
  • One by one, the migrants stand behind chairs at a long table.†   (source)
  • Here, one by one, he attends to a stream of migrants.†   (source)
  • They pick up three migrants mutilated by the train in as many days.†   (source)
  • The incensed priest, a crowd of a hundred around him, demanded that they let the migrants go.†   (source)
  • Still, Enrique is spared the more severe shakedowns other migrants face.†   (source)
  • El Tren de la Muerte, some migrants call it.†   (source)
  • He asks each of the other migrants to help him get back to his smuggler in Tepic.†   (source)
  • Migrants would loiter, drink, and smoke around the church.†   (source)
  • To Padre Leo, the people most in need in Nuevo Laredo are migrants.†   (source)
  • Moreover, some of the truckers fear that migrants might assault them.†   (source)
  • For a month, Reyes says, other migrants from the train stayed on the mountain, afraid to come down.†   (source)
  • Olga begged money for food, medicine, and wheelchairs and to get migrants home.†   (source)
  • The social role of helping the poor and migrants belongs to politicians.†   (source)
  • But she has helped to feed these migrants for a year and a half, figuring that Jesus would approve.†   (source)
  • Migrants who haven't eaten in days sob when they are handed a bundle of food.†   (source)
  • Still, at least nine in ten truckers here, one trucker at the stop says, refuse migrants.†   (source)
  • Most often, says social worker Isabel Barragan Torres, migrants lose their left legs to the train.†   (source)
  • An opposing group went to the bishop, saying he should keep migrants out of the church.†   (source)
  • As migrants cross the bridge, the bandits drop out of the limbs and surround them.†   (source)
  • Sometimes migrants riding on the trains climb from car to car, trying to move forward or backward.†   (source)
  • There are twenty migrants on Enrique's bus, and they are depressed.†   (source)
  • Villanueva convinced the officers to release the migrants.†   (source)
  • It is thick with bandits who target migrants.†   (source)
  • The first migrants who spot twenty agents down the tracks scream a warning to the others: "Bajense!†   (source)
  • Up to three migrants have drowned in a single day along this stretch of river.†   (source)
  • Unlike migrants, they wear new black Nikes.†   (source)
  • The judicial police, he says, routinely stop trains to rob and beat migrants.†   (source)
  • They strung up a large banner that read, HOSPITAL, ENEMY OF MIGRANTS.†   (source)
  • I interviewed Carlos Martan Ramarez, a doctor who treats migrants pro bono for the priest.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, friends say, migrants are killed when whirlpools suck them under.†   (source)
  • Migrants jumped off and ran toward the mountain.†   (source)
  • Like many others at the church, she volunteers to help cook dinner for the migrants each day.†   (source)
  • Similarly, a church member, a taxi driver, gave five migrants a ride up the road.†   (source)
  • He tells church members that they, too, were once migrants.†   (source)
  • "Se lo comio el tren," other migrants will say.†   (source)
  • Some are migrants, who sit on the steps of the big clock tower.†   (source)
  • Enrique has seen smugglers ask migrants to grab hold of a long rope to cross the river.†   (source)
  • Police stopped the train near the town of Tonala to hunt for migrants, and Enrique had to jump off.†   (source)
  • He has cared for injured migrants before.†   (source)
  • Many migrants have had their caps stolen, so they wrap their heads in T-shirts.†   (source)
  • In Tapachula alone, up to seventeen buses full of detained migrants are sent south each day.†   (source)
  • Enrique was relieved that one of the fellow migrants had the money and handed it over.†   (source)
  • A church survey showed that many didn't attend church because of the migrants.†   (source)
  • Most migrants must leave the shelter before she can afford to buy them limbs.†   (source)
  • He and the three migrants hurry along the edge of the Rio Grande to a tributary called Zacate Creek.†   (source)
  • Two or three other migrants set up their buckets along the same sidewalk.†   (source)
  • For part of the journey, the smugglers pack her and sixteen other migrants into the back of a truck.†   (source)
  • I reviewed the hospital files of all injured migrants between 1999 and 2003.†   (source)
  • He leads a prayer for dead migrants who are buried here.†   (source)
  • As the train rolled north, the migrants drank their water bottles dry.†   (source)
  • The bishop goes to churches himself to preach about the need to help migrants.†   (source)
  • A small army unit, based next to the train station, was out catching migrants.†   (source)
  • She watches TV: migrants drowning in the Rio Grande, dying in the desert, ranchers who shoot them.†   (source)
  • Enrique shares one of five soiled, soggy mattresses with three other migrants.†   (source)
  • Some migrants climb on board with a toothbrush tucked into a pocket.†   (source)
  • Despite the increased danger, more migrants are making the attempt.†   (source)
  • Latina migrants ultimately pay a steep price for coming to the United States.†   (source)
  • "Ahora nos enfrentamos a la bestia," migrants say when they enter Chiapas.†   (source)
  • Other migrants gave accounts of similar robberies at Cordoba.†   (source)
  • DEVOURED Many migrants who first set out on the train with Enrique have been caught and deported.†   (source)
  • His wife, Rosita, administers first aid to migrants.†   (source)
  • So do two other migrants, a Mexican brother and sister, waiting with him.†   (source)
  • These migrants don't talk of The Pilgrim's Train, or of The Iron Horse.†   (source)
  • Besides migrants, the camp has ten perpetual residents.†   (source)
  • Migrants wake one another and begin climbing down to prepare to jump.†   (source)
  • People in Chiapas talk of being robbed by migrants with guns and knives.†   (source)
  • In two years, eighty migrants have shared the room with her family.†   (source)
  • The smugglers put twenty-four migrants into an overloaded boat in Mexico, he says.†   (source)
  • Other migrants have been generous with him.†   (source)
  • His smuggler loaded 150 migrants inside the tank of a truck that normally hauled gasoline.†   (source)
  • Migrants clip labels off clothes from Central America.†   (source)
  • Bandits edge their machetes against migrants' throats or ears as they disrobe.†   (source)
  • It is noisy all night with the sound of migrants coming and going as they try to cross the river.†   (source)
  • Migrants prefer to pay to cross in a raft than risk the river alone.†   (source)
  • A volunteer or one of the migrants begins the short prayer.†   (source)
  • Many of the migrants on Enrique's train huddle together, hoping for safety in numbers.†   (source)
  • As the procession of migrants has grown, so has the determination to help.†   (source)
  • He tells God he doesn't want to haul contraband, but it's the only way to help the migrants.†   (source)
  • Enrique figures that one in ten migrants makes it this far.†   (source)
  • We want to remember the migrants who passed this way.†   (source)
  • Ortega has let seventeen migrants stay -- some for days, some for months.†   (source)
  • Migrants deported by the United States often return to the San Jose church.†   (source)
  • Migrants, who are often afraid to press charges, make ideal victims.†   (source)
  • She asks for ten more years of life so she can build a permanent shelter for injured migrants.†   (source)
  • The migrants I spent time with also gave me an invaluable gift.†   (source)
  • They no longer come into the church to hunt down migrants.†   (source)
  • A local resident counts forty migrants felled here by bandits, some hacked to death with a machete.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of migrants mill around in the courtyard.†   (source)
  • To migrants, begging in Chiapas is like walking up to a loaded gun.†   (source)
  • Some of the migrants bolt down the ladders, trying to escape the noxious haze.†   (source)
  • Some migrants say Mexicans exploit illegals by stiffing them after a day's work.†   (source)
  • Enrique runs back to the cemetery, a way station for migrants.†   (source)
  • She buys blood and medicine so migrants won't die.†   (source)
  • This, migrants and Grupo Beta Sur officers say, is the most dangerous spot.†   (source)
  • Lozano doubts, however, that even his corrupt officers would pick poor migrants to rob.†   (source)
  • Migrants who resist are beaten or killed.†   (source)
  • Migrants filter ditch sewage through T-shirts.†   (source)
  • Migrants tick off the states they have passed -- and the many they still have to go.†   (source)
  • As night falls, some of the older migrants drink whiskey.†   (source)
  • She has treated more than 1,500 wounded migrants since the shelter opened.†   (source)
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