Carmen Sesin is a reporter for NBC News based in Miami, Florida.
QUERÉTARO, Mexico — One of the Mexican farmworkers killed in Florida when a pickup truck sideswiped their bus had arrived in the U.S. only 15 days before to work and save money for his marriage, his mother said. Alfredo Tovar Sánchez, 19, who came to the U.S. through a temporary workers program, never found out that his fiancée is two months pregnant, his mother, María Sánchez, said in an interview this week with Telemundo News.
The farmworkers were on their way to harvest watermelons at a farm in Dunnellon, Florida, when a pickup struck hit their bus at 6:40 a.m. Tuesday. Like the other farmworkers on the bus, Tovar Sánchez was in the U.S. under the H-2A temporary agricultural workers program, intended to help U.S. farmers fill temporary jobs. With the H-2A visa, farmworkers cannot be in the U.S. for more than a year and they cannot bring family with them.
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