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Vermonters say immigration policy is failing migrant workers, dairy farms

By Tena Starr on April 26, 2010


Writer Julia Alvarez reads from her latest book, "Return to Sender," at the Vermont Sate Conference on Migrant Farmworkers. Alvarez, who lives in Vermont, is from the Dominican Republic. The seed for the novel came from her work as a translator for the children of Mexican migrant workers who attend local schools.

MIDDLEBURY – Battling emotion and shyness, a young Mexican woman briefly told her story Saturday to participants at the Vermont State Conference on Migrant Farmworkers. She’s working in this country in order to send money home, she said. But she misses her family, and her life here is lonely.

“I am not a criminal,â€