For my proposed website, I intend to delve into and explore the experiences of migrant workers. I order to do this; I plan to interview two workers and get their life stories. I met these workers a few years ago and fully plan to mask their identities and remove any distinguishable information that may enable people to track them down. I intend to find out how their job affects their lives, their families and how it is most certainly a low wage job. Additionally, I plan to explore why most immigrants go into farm labor and how they try to survive in the US. I will also explore why they decided to come to the US in search of jobs rather than stay in their own country.
I will look at the various laws that are set up in order to protect these workers and the laws that keep out illegal immigrants. There are several laws that I will be able to look at that will provide me good information. Some of these laws are controversial as well, thus these will definitely be included in my research. For example the New Mexico law dealing with immigration will be included into my website,
Additionally, I will look at the various jobs that farming entails. I will try to provide a snapshot of the typical day of a farm laborer; from getting up early in the morning, changing water, picking, fertilizing and repeating the same process each day. I will examine various crops that laborers help grow; such as cotton, cantaloupes, hay, tomatoes, and grapes. All of these crops require different methods of work and different workers as well.
Also I will research why farmers take advantage of illegal immigrants by underpaying them and allowing them to work on their farms. I will examine the benefits that come with hiring someone illegal rather than a US resident. Lastly I will examine the moral issues dealing with the hiring of illegal immigrants
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