Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies by Seth Holmes
"How many migrant workers are in the United States? How many are immigrants? What percentage of agricultural workers are from Mexico? How many are unauthorized?"
In chapter 2 of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies by Seth Holmes, there are about 175 million migrants in the world. There are about 95% of agricultural workers from Mexico and about 52% of them are unauthorized. The statistics were quite bizarre to me because although the book was released in 2013 there are about 327 million people in the U.S. right now and if the statistic were put into perspective that is a little more than half of the population of people who are migrants. I also learned that the Mexican government is not really providing for the farmers of Mexico which was some of the many main reasons as to why so many people migrated to the U.S. The "Save Our State" initiative in the chapter, which was a proposition that was passed in 1994 that basically denied public services such as health care and education to people that are "reasonably suspected to be undocumented," kind of annoyed me because some if not most of the migrants are harmless and are just looking for better opportunities not only for themselves but for their families back at home and if they were to get sick and die then the family would not only be left with no income but also the grieving of a lost loved one.
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| Struggles of Migrant Workers from Mexico |
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