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Ruiz said that her family was lucky in developing a "close, trusting relationship" with their employer, who placed them and another family in a farmhouse rather than in the migrant camp...
...said many migrant worker children drop out of school rather than miss so much work, and their lack of education "keeps the cycle going." "You tend to lose interest in the work and wonder if it's all worth it since you're always behind," she added...
Until three years ago, Laura Ruiz '80 spent eleven-hour days picking cabbage on upstate New York farms. On a half-hour CBS program which aired last Saturday, Ruiz, an Adams House sociology concentrator, discussed her childhood as a migrant worker...
Ruiz said she wanted the "Thirty Minutes" program to awaken people to the conditions migrant laborers face. She described working in the fields in New York from May to November and then returning to school in Mission, Texas, for the rest of the year...
...despised the work, but I was working collectively with my family so we could eventually buy a house and other things," she said yesterday. Most migrant workers live in camps that are "unsanitary an unhealthy. The kids would have sores all over their bodies," she added...