America Now: Children of the Harvest

Posted by Brenda González  July 20, 2010

Young migrant laborers work alongside their struggling parents on America's farms

What are your kids doing this summer?

Swimming, playing, going to camp?

For some children in America-- hundreds of thousands of them-- summer means hard labor in the hot sun.

They're migrant laborers-- some as young as five or six-- working alongside their struggling parents on America's farms.

We took our cameras and spent months in the fields. What we found was a story of hardship, perseverance, and love. And sometimes a hard-won triumph over adversity.

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Tags: day laborers, Migrant workers
Topics: Immigrants, Immigration, News