In Arizona, where agriculture is a $23 billion industry, an estimated 10,000 students are eligible for the Migrant Education Program, according to DOE data. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Alvarez’s team of educators would travel the fields to interview agricultural workers and find children who could benefit from the resources provided by the program, even providing hearing aids and glasses when needed — any “tools to help them be successful in school,” said Alvarez.
The girls say juggling work and school can be hard, but that they continue to put a priority on their education so that they can become “a big person in life.” For Jimena that means becoming a surgeon and for Leslie, a pediatrician. Both are U.S. citizens, born in the U.S.The sisters’ current schedule only requires them to attend school on Fridays, but even then, free time is almost nonexistent.
As the eldest of five children, Jimena has more responsibility than most, serving as her siblings’ caretaker. The sisters also financially support their parents who they say were deported to Mexico almost two years ago and recently, lost their jobs due to COVID. The Aguilar sisters’ experiences resemble those of many other young adults who work in American fields and help support parents and other family members south of the border.
Erick Delamantes looks out at a field much like the one he used to work on as a high school student. Through the help of a Department of Education initiative he has since been able to study full-time as a student at Arizona Western College.His classmate Luis Vargas, another CAMP recipient, also started working the fields as a child and continues to work in agriculture to make sure his parents are taken care of.
DEPORT THEM
this is a good opertunity for teens to get work experience
Well, if true I have a few arces. I'd offer them a place to sleep and school bus to catch. Homework to do, and have duties they must complete daily, yet, let them have 'Their time ' to enjoy life and live in it. Not just exsist!
What is the point of this story? Family farms are hard work and this is there livelihood. Better then protecting in the streets! Thank a farmer you ate today!
Like it or not, produce is hard work. We all wish these teens had a better family structure to support them. I have a feeling they are gonna make it though. Sounds like their priorities are where they need to be. Harvest time is busy.
Farm life!
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Yet they chose to live here instead of going back to the hellhole they came from...what does that tell you?
Now do the child slave labor in China who make Nike shoes for Lebron’s big contracts
They're illegal and democrats exploit them so they don't have to pay a few extra cents for lettuce
We regret that Arizona is still a red state, and are working to change that.
not smart, working hard is good but this is just plain stupid and they always will stay poor. do better.
They should go back.
Don’t child labor laws apply to agricultural field work? My goodness, I would have thought these laws were made for exactly that type of work.
thanks, capitalism
Nice! Developing a work ethic.
Are they undocumented? Shouldn't that be the focus of the story - exploitation of undocumented workers?!?
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Good work ethic. They will be successful in life. I had my first job at 12, clearing rocks from several large fields for a brush hog to come through.
It's sad that they aren't able to just enjoy being teenagers. In sure they are doing it because they're family needs it. But what if we lived in a society where ever parent was paid a livable wage?
I'm not to happy with you as it is, you part of the problem anyway, I don't wanna hear anything out of you until this dumb shit stops.
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donwinslow Their employer is violating their school/work permit and breaking the law if they’re working 40 hours a week. I understand that the need to work to support their families and, they might not get out of low paying jobs without an education. High school is the first step.
This is sad.
And these are the ones who Nancy Pelosi is cutting from the relief bill.
So! Are you braggin or complainin
So many teens have and are doing that it your story isn’t even funny
all teens should be working and going to school. else the spoil brats turn out to have no values
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Welcome to life
For about a year, the Aguilar sisters have worked in fields harvesting produce — 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. They are just 2 of around 500,000 child laborers who harvest the nation’s produce, according to the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs. (2/6)
They're not Ginger so their lives are easy. My people can't even live in Arizona because of the violent threat of the sun's rays.
Odds are these teen sisters will be successful in life, because they understand hard work. $5 you won't find them running around every night committing arson.
what year is it?
The last point I want to make is this,, -- my times up. We shouldn 't be surprised in Ferguson Listen, JACK., but neither should we panic or fall back on xenophobia.
I have to admire the sisters but why did the parents keep having children they could not afford, and evidently came to America illegally. I hope they stay in school and receive some support. If they work hard they will realize the American dream like others before them.
This isn't news... (So lame)
God bless this tween sisters for their hard work in such a hard working life,as read in this news.This sisters are motivation for all the people.
this is a good experience for teens. it prepares them for life.
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I did farm work when in school too! It was a summer job and now that classes are virtual kids can get in a little more time working if they want too! I worked at different jobs the whole time I was in High school and would've done 40 if I could instead of working plays and other
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Too few of them and this is unfortunate. Most farmers are senior citizens.
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