Migrant farm workers
Fields of tears
They came to America illegally, for the best of reasons

TERESA VEGA’S first son was two when a flood carried rubbish, dead animals and disease through the canals of Oaxaca, her desperately poor home state in southern Mexico. The boy started vomiting, got diarrhoea and ran a fever. There was a doctor a few hours’ walk away, but Ms Vega and her husband, Marco Lopez, had no money to pay him. They could do nothing, she says. They watched their son die.
http://www.economist.com/node/177229...TOKEN=45591331

Another article about how bad things are for illegal farm workers. They admittedly do work and live in poor conditions. However, if the labor supply were restricted things would improve for them. Either wages would go higher (together with food prices) or the food would be grown in countries with lower wages thereby increasing the number of jobs available in many of these IAs' home countries.

One part of the article I find very telling is quoted below

[quote]Teresa, Felix and Gonzalo Vega only nod sadly when asked about the rancour, the Arizona law, the politics. They feel they had no choice in coming illegally. Would they do it again? “No, not if I had known what lay ahead,â€