Word: campesinos
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...some of the Senate's key guest-worker provisions are impractical at best. That includes the requirement that after two years working in the U.S., migrants must return to their home countries for a year before they can renew their status and come back to the States. No Mexican campesino I've ever met follows that kind of truncated migrant schedule. If he's not allowed to renew his two-year guest-worker stint immediately, he'll simply make another illegal crossing - and return to the same undocumented shadows we were trying to lure...
Growing the coca plant is not necessarily the choice of the campesino farmers in Colombia; contrary to the hard-lined beliefs of the U.S., farmers are often forced to change their food crops to the incredibly lucrative yield of soon-to-be cocaine. Guerilla groups have complete control over the Colombian farmland and can easily hold a gun to the head of a powerless campesino, demanding that he grow the volatile crop. Besides the violent threats of the guerillas, many campesinos have no practical option but to grow coca, for they are among the poorest people in the world. Living...