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...truth is that very few farmworkers are migrants. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that migrant workers comprise less than 8 per cent of all farm-workers in the country. In California, where Chavez has concentrated his unionizing efforts, less than 9 per cent of the work force is migrant and less than 4 per cent comes from out-of-state...
...complex suits. A neighborhood lawyer with a tenant-landlord problem might turn to the National Housing and Economic Development Law Project in Berkeley, Cal.; an attorney working on a welfare case might call up the Center of Social Welfare Policy and Law in New York; an agency serving a migrant worker might look to the Migrant Legal Action Program in Washington...
Patrick Flores, 44. He tried to quit school twice but returned at his parents' urging. In 1970 Flores, son of a migrant worker, became the first Mexican American to be named a Roman Catholic bishop. One of nine children, he grew up near Houston, graduated from St. Mary's Seminary there, was ordained...
Wylie gave the reason differently: "I'm entering the resolution because next week is part of a nationwide drive to support the migrant farm worker...
...individual or collective crisis that might give them a sense of direction, something to fight against--and when death comes it comes as an anticlimax. The "leaf storm," the invasion of the banana company with its false prosperity and erratic electricity and ersatz shelters for its army of migrant workers, passes over the town but disdains to destroy it. The Buendias fail to ignite the town as they burn themselves...