, the male and female may have sought employment in a small business, however it is likely that both would have ended up with low-paying jobs.
Since it was likely that these migrants would end up in the agriculture industry, they also faced poor working and living conditions. Migrant farmers in the U.S. are called the working poor (Egan 1105). Mexicans and Mexican Americans work today for $15 per day. They are forced to wash their hands in field ditches that are contaminated. Housing is poor and heads of households travel without their families to move from one job to another. California has 8.000 agricultural communities that stretch seventeen miles south and east of Fresno. Most of the migrant farm workers are Mexican born and Spanish is the principal language (Egan 1106). Even today, these conditions remain with an additional focus on occupational hazards such as exposure to pesticides. Latino farm workers are exposed fertilizers,
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