Immigrants seek better future for families

Workers trade poverty for prosperity in rural Kentucky

By Lorie Love
Register Assistant Editor

(Editor’s note: This is part one of a four-day series on the impact of immigration in Madison County.)

Imagine you are so poor that your six-member family is living in a four-room house without a bathroom.

To wash your family’s clothes, you must take them to the river and get them as clean as you can.

Your children are thirsty for knowledge, but there’s no school in your town.

There are no jobs and many nights, you lie awake wondering how you will continue to take care of your family.

With hopes of a better life, imagine you move your family to a nearby city, but there are no jobs there, either. And still no school.

What would you do?

“You would move, too,â€