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Video: How one teacher keeps dreams afloat for the children of migrant farmworkers

Dec 16, 2015, 8:32 AM 0

LatinaLista — The life of a migrant farmworker may be one of the darkest blemishes on the U.S. labor market. As if it wasn’t bad enough that migrant workers, and their families, are exposed to dangerous pesticides, abusive employers,…

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Video: Author details how current immigration system evolved to host “systemic prejudice against Mexicans and other migrant workers”

Jun 2, 2014, 2:46 PM 0

LatinaLista — Immigration didn’t become ‘illegal’ until 1965, according to Aviva Chomsky the author of a new book titled “Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal.” Chomsky, professor of history and coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem State University in…