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Luck itself is alien to the children ?and adults???of Migrants. Sharecroppers, Mountaineers. Writing about the migrant way of life along the Atlantic seaboard from southern Florida to northern New York, Coles reminds his readers that "even many animals define themselves by where they live, yet we have thousands [some 300,000] of boys and girls who live utterly uprooted lives, who wander the American earth, who even as children enable us to eat by harvesting our crops but who never can think of any place as home...
...than it is often assumed. But with relatively modest expenditures?or no expenditures at all?the Government can help merely by re-examining the problems. Almost all authorities on crime agree, for example, that many social infractions now classed as crimes?drunkenness, drug addiction and homosexual relations between consenting adults???are not matters for the police or the criminal law. The problems are real enough, but should be dealt with in other ways, freeing police for more crucial tasks...
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