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  • She's got two little kids—her husband is a migrant.†   (source)
  • The area was located in the San Gabriel Valley, which for years consisted of incipient industry, farmland and migrant camps until Los Angeles stretched out fingers of suburban sprawl to the furthest reaches of the valley.†   (source)
  • When she was seven, she decided that the migrant workers staying in their run-down houses on the south end of town lacked a nutritious diet, so she emptied the house's pantries, cold boxes, freezers, and synthesizer banks, talked three friends into accompanying her, and distributed several hundred marks" worth of the family's monthly food budget.†   (source)
  • It seems we had discovered where the migrant workers came to have their babies.†   (source)
  • Just about all of my friends have parents who work migrant jobs, and that means that none of us are living much over the poverty line.†   (source)
  • They became migrants.†   (source)
  • His father was a Dominican migrant worker who met his mother picking blueberries in Cherryfield, got her pregnant, moved back to the D.R. to shack up with a local girl, and never looked back.†   (source)
  • The nurse is not there to listen in because that is the day she goes out in the field to give migrant babies booster shots.†   (source)
  • It was the last stop on Route 66, end of the line for truckers, tourists, and migrants from the East.†   (source)
  • The purple blooms of thistles became black behind the people's houses, and migrant birds moved through.†   (source)
  • And it was in the same spirit mainly that he got interested in the migrant labor camps not far from Duke.†   (source)
  • But the closest to chaos I had ever been, except for that one bad night in Overtown, was in a little migrant workers' town on the edge of the Everglades.†   (source)
  • Folks call 'em migrants nowadays; then they was just called pickers.†   (source)
  • The house we lived in was nothing more than a shack, a barracks with single plank walls and rough wooden floors, like the cheapest kind of migrant workers' housing.†   (source)
  • It is true that young rabbits are great migrants and capable of journeying for miles, but they do not take to it readily.†   (source)
  • Immigrant is a word coined in America, for migrants who came in, rather than went out, the meaning of emigrant, which was how Europe saw it.†   (source)
  • I read many American novels, and recall especially John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, in which I found many similarities between the plight of the migrant workers in that novel and our own laborers and farmworkers.†   (source)
  • It was migrant workers waiting to pick August peaches, and gardens being weeded and tended to offset the expense of winter vegetables.†   (source)
  • In 2000, a rancher named Roger Barnett declared open season on migrants.†   (source)
  • Mattie once told me about a migrant lemon picker in Phoenix who lost a thumb in a machine and bled to death because the nearest hospital turned him away.†   (source)
  • Every summer if there's a big peach crop the migrant workers flood Round Hill.†   (source)
  • In other cases the migrants have been driven to movement and seasonal work by poverty and terrible need.†   (source)
  • Like me, they were migrants from the east and refugees from their own community.†   (source)
  • Mr. Offenhaus was talking about the migrant labor, the orange pickers and so forth.†   (source)
  • Or alternatively the knifing of a native foreman by a migrant or a fight among rival groups of migrants.†   (source)
    migrant = one who moves from one place to another
  • Or alternatively the knifing of a native foreman by a migrant or a fight among rival groups of migrants.†   (source)
    migrants = those who moves from one place to another
  • We are all migrants through time.†   (source)
  • One time, as evening approached and the work for the day wound down, Saeed went up to his foreman and thanked him for all he was doing for the migrants.†   (source)
  • The news in those days was full of war and migrants and nativists, and it was full of fracturing too, of regions pulling away from nations, and cities pulling away from hinterlands, and it seemed that as everyone was coming together everyone was also moving apart.†   (source)
  • Perhaps they had decided they did not have it in them to do what would have needed to be done, to corral and bloody and where necessary slaughter the migrants, and had determined that some other way would have to be found.†   (source)
  • In exchange for their labor in clearing terrain and building infrastructure and assembling dwellings from prefabricated blocks, migrants were promised forty meters and a pipe: a home on forty square meters of land and a connection to all the utilities of modernity.†   (source)
  • He did not make small talk but unlike many of the natives he ate his lunch among the migrants who labored under him, and he seemed to like Saeed, or if like was too strong a word, he seemed at least to value Saeed's dedication, and often he sat next to Saeed as he ate.†   (source)
  • Saeed had heard that this man had a gun, though he could not see it on him, but many of the migrants in dark London had taken to carrying knives and other weapons, being as they were in a state of siege, and liable to be attacked by government forces at any time, or in some cases being predisposed to carrying weapons, having done it where they came from, and so continuing to do it here, which Saeed suspected was the case with this man.†   (source)
  • But in the nearby house of his fellow country-folk the man with the white-marked heard spoke of martyrdom, not as the most desirable outcome but as one possible end of a path the right-minded had no other choice but to follow, and advocated a banding together of migrants along religious principles, cutting across divisions of race or language or nation, for what did those divisions matter now in a world full of doors, the only divisions that mattered now were between those who sought the right of passage and those who would deny them passage, and in such a world the religion of the righteous must defend those who sought passage.†   (source)
  • But natives did labor alongside migrants on the work sites, usually as supervisors or as operators of heavy machinery, giant vehicles that resembled mechanized dinosaurs and would lift vast amounts of earth or roll flat hot strips of paving or churn concrete with the slow serenity of a masticating cow.†   (source)
  • In college she'd come back one summer and shot in a migrant-worker camp.†   (source)
  • Enrique sees another migrant who has managed to make it around La Arrocera.†   (source)
  • He is spared only by the intervention of a migrant MS from his old neighborhood back home.†   (source)
  • Long ago, Gonzalez's neighbor heard a migrant knock at his door.†   (source)
  • The hospital pushed the penniless migrant out before he was healed.†   (source)
  • One migrant says, "I've done the most difficult part.†   (source)
  • She describes a migrant who lost both legs but cooked for everyone in the shelter.†   (source)
  • Her son shares the middle bed with a migrant.†   (source)
  • For a moment, the officer and the mayor's driver discuss the new dead migrant.†   (source)
  • As migrant Jose Rodas Orellana readies to board a train in Veracruz, a man emerges from his house.†   (source)
  • He promised to help raise funds to build a migrant shelter.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, a madrina rides the train and pretends to be a migrant.†   (source)
  • They wage what a priest at a migrant shelter calls la guerra sin nombre, the war with no name.†   (source)
  • A young Honduran migrant, Fernando Antonio Valle Recarte, points at the ground in Veracruz.†   (source)
  • Padre, I don't have a shirt," a migrant says.†   (source)
  • A foul-smelling migrant with badly swollen feet also needed to talk to the priest.†   (source)
  • A teenage migrant standing next to me was hungry.†   (source)
  • Another neighbor says a migrant hugged and tried to kiss one of her twin daughters.†   (source)
  • They're going to hit us!" one migrant said.†   (source)
  • Each day, at least one new wounded migrant passes through the shelter's lime green doors.†   (source)
  • Hours later, the Red Cross asked Cancino if he could help an injured migrant.†   (source)
  • The migrant claimed that a police officer had pushed him toward the train, causing the accident.†   (source)
  • As the migrant described the abuse, two police officers walked down the dirt path toward us.†   (source)
  • "Shut up!" one of the officers said, hitting the migrant with a nightstick several times.†   (source)
  • One migrant was crushed between the train car and a bridge the train was crossing.†   (source)
  • I was on hand when the migrant Isaaas Guerra was caught and described his desert ordeal.†   (source)
  • Alma asked the migrant to wait and started to usher in the future mayor.†   (source)
  • They sound an alarm, migrant to migrant, car to car.†   (source)
  • When the boy threw the roll toward the migrant beside me, it bounced off the train.†   (source)
  • "One of the acts of mercy," the bishop says, "is to give shelter to a migrant."†   (source)
  • We stumbled across a migrant preparing to swim north.†   (source)
  • Father Flor Maraa Rigoni, the priest at the Albergue Belen migrant shelter, counts nineteen groups.†   (source)
  • Other times, the migrant is dead by the time they arrive.†   (source)
  • Migrant twins Jose Enrique Oliva Rosa and Jose Luis Oliva Rosa told of having been kidnapped.†   (source)
  • Sometimes the ambulance workers must pry a flattened hand or leg off the rails to move the migrant.†   (source)
  • A few bring bags of cement, to help build the migrant shelter.†   (source)
  • Two nights ago, it killed a youngster he knew, a tall, skinny migrant with a cleft upper lip.†   (source)
  • Running off a migrant, he says, is like turning against yourself.†   (source)
  • At highway checkpoints, agents charge smugglers $50 to $200 per migrant to pass through.†   (source)
  • He let the migrant stay for an hour, until he was sure the coast was clear.†   (source)
  • Another migrant was found dead downstream.†   (source)
  • Migrant Miguel Olivas described the meal-card black market.†   (source)
  • As the migrant jumped off the hopper to run back for the crackers, he stumbled and fell backward.†   (source)
  • Another migrant, Darwin Zepeda Lopez, recounts what can happen in a locked boxcar.†   (source)
  • Villanueva protects any migrant who runs inside the church.†   (source)
  • Enrique has seen smugglers ask migrants to grab hold of a long rope to cross the river.†   (source)
  • Also among the permanent campers are several migrants who are stuck.†   (source)
  • As the train rolled north, the migrants drank their water bottles dry.†   (source)
  • A church survey showed that many didn't attend church because of the migrants.†   (source)
  • Enrique runs back to the cemetery, a way station for migrants.†   (source)
  • In two years, eighty migrants have shared the room with her family.†   (source)
  • He leads a prayer for dead migrants who are buried here.†   (source)
  • They pick up three migrants mutilated by the train in as many days.†   (source)
  • Enrique was relieved that one of the fellow migrants had the money and handed it over.†   (source)
  • DEVOURED Many migrants who first set out on the train with Enrique have been caught and deported.†   (source)
  • Some of the migrants are trying to run, stampeding among the graves.†   (source)
  • The smugglers put twenty-four migrants into an overloaded boat in Mexico, he says.†   (source)
  • Migrants filter ditch sewage through T-shirts.†   (source)
  • Migrants prefer to pay to cross in a raft than risk the river alone.†   (source)
  • It feeds the migrants a main dish for two or three days.†   (source)
  • Ortega has let seventeen migrants stay — some for days, some for months.†   (source)
  • His smuggler loaded 150 migrants inside the tank of a truck that normally hauled gasoline.†   (source)
  • He tells church members that they, too, were once migrants.†   (source)
  • A small army unit, based next to the train station, was out catching migrants.†   (source)
  • The social role of helping the poor and migrants belongs to politicians.†   (source)
  • Most migrants at the station hide between or inside boxcars or in the grass.†   (source)
  • He has heard that U.S. ranchers shoot migrants who come to beg.†   (source)
  • Many of the migrants on Enrique's train huddle together, hoping for safety in numbers.†   (source)
  • Local residents see groups of migrants walking down dirt roads naked, stripped of everything.†   (source)
  • Migrants usually head to the border town of Tecun Uman to cross the river.†   (source)
  • El Tren de la Muerte, some migrants call it.†   (source)
  • They began to let a few migrants sleep and eat at the church.†   (source)
  • Like many others at the church, she volunteers to help cook dinner for the migrants each day.†   (source)
  • A volunteer or one of the migrants begins the short prayer.†   (source)
  • Many migrants at the church return with smuggler horror stories.†   (source)
  • The incensed priest, a crowd of a hundred around him, demanded that they let the migrants go.†   (source)
  • Enrique shares one of five soiled, soggy mattresses with three other migrants.†   (source)
  • Some are migrants, who sit on the steps of the big clock tower.†   (source)
  • There are acres of open cattle range and few houses or busy streets where migrants can hide.†   (source)
  • Migrants who resist are beaten or killed.†   (source)
  • To Padre Leo, the people most in need in Nuevo Laredo are migrants.†   (source)
  • As the procession of migrants has grown, so has the determination to help.†   (source)
  • Migrants deported by the United States often return to the San Jose church.†   (source)
  • In Tapachula alone, up to seventeen buses full of detained migrants are sent south each day.†   (source)
  • Migrants clip labels off clothes from Central America.†   (source)
  • The officers put the migrants in the back of their truck.†   (source)
  • Migrants like to hide in the cars or among them, and the dogs sniff them out.†   (source)
  • Many migrants have had their caps stolen, so they wrap their heads in T-shirts.†   (source)
  • They are festooned with clothing that the migrants discard as they begin to wade out.†   (source)
  • He said no. That night, as he was walking home, the same migrants grabbed him near the station.†   (source)
  • The migrants sleep around the church, get into fights, and defecate on her doorstep.†   (source)
  • When the train gains speed, they surround a group of migrants.†   (source)
  • Some of the migrants bolt down the ladders, trying to escape the noxious haze.†   (source)
  • Police stopped the train near the town of Tonala to hunt for migrants, and Enrique had to jump off.†   (source)
  • Often, she says, she gets up to feed migrants on the 1:30 A.M. and 3 A.M. trains, too.†   (source)
  • They strip out the backseats and stack the migrants like cordwood, one on top of the other.†   (source)
  • As migrants cross the bridge, the bandits drop out of the limbs and surround them.†   (source)
  • Each week the priest asks church members to feed migrants.†   (source)
  • But she has helped to feed these migrants for a year and a half, figuring that Jesus would approve.†   (source)
  • They saw many migrants injured as they tried to escape capture by the police.†   (source)
  • The judicial police, he says, routinely stop trains to rob and beat migrants.†   (source)
  • She has treated more than 1,500 wounded migrants since the shelter opened.†   (source)
  • Villanueva convinced the officers to release the migrants.†   (source)
  • The police crackdowns mounted, and more and more migrants came to the church.†   (source)
  • It is noisy all night with the sound of migrants coming and going as they try to cross the river.†   (source)
  • The migrants I spent time with also gave me an invaluable gift.†   (source)
  • One by one, the migrants stand behind chairs at a long table.†   (source)
  • As night falls, some of the older migrants drink whiskey.†   (source)
  • "Se lo comio el tren," other migrants will say.†   (source)
  • To migrants, begging in Chiapas is like walking up to a loaded gun.†   (source)
  • There are twenty migrants on Enrique's bus, and they are depressed.†   (source)
  • Up to three migrants have drowned in a single day along this stretch of river.†   (source)
  • These migrants are a threat to the security of our children and families, they said.†   (source)
  • People in Chiapas talk of being robbed by migrants with guns and knives.†   (source)
  • Enrique figures that one in ten migrants makes it this far.†   (source)
  • Other migrants, frustrated by the train's pace, disconnect the brake line on purpose.†   (source)
  • The places where migrants encounter the greatest cruelty?†   (source)
  • He tells God he doesn't want to haul contraband, but it's the only way to help the migrants.†   (source)
  • In two years, thirty-two migrants lost limbs to the train.†   (source)
  • I reviewed the hospital files of all injured migrants between 1999 and 2003.†   (source)
  • Here, one by one, he attends to a stream of migrants.†   (source)
  • Some migrants slide into a small spot between the two containers.†   (source)
  • El Gusano de Hierro, some migrants call it.†   (source)
  • How migrants hide their money is from migrants I met riding on the trains.†   (source)
  • "Ahora nos enfrentamos a la bestia," migrants say when they enter Chiapas.†   (source)
  • Soon she had twenty-four migrants at home, so many she could barely open her front door.†   (source)
  • Some migrants, dehydrated and delirious, kill themselves.†   (source)
  • Migrants can't wait around for months until the trial.†   (source)
  • Migrants huddle between the cars or with strangers, seeking protection from the biting wind.†   (source)
  • Gangsters' warnings to migrants not to go to the police are ruthlessly enforced.†   (source)
  • "The police were firing at the migrants," Ramos says.†   (source)
  • Two or three other migrants set up their buckets along the same sidewalk.†   (source)
  • Migrants wake one another and begin climbing down to prepare to jump.†   (source)
  • An opposing group went to the bishop, saying he should keep migrants out of the church.†   (source)
  • Moreover, some of the truckers fear that migrants might assault them.†   (source)
  • Some migrants stand on top of the train, straining to see the migra agents up ahead.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of migrants mill around in the courtyard.†   (source)
  • They grab fleeing migrants by their shirts.†   (source)
  • Olga begged money for food, medicine, and wheelchairs and to get migrants home.†   (source)
  • His wife, Rosita, administers first aid to migrants.†   (source)
  • Other migrants gave accounts of similar robberies at Cordoba.†   (source)
  • They no longer come into the church to hunt down migrants.†   (source)
  • To help the migrants look more presentable, he brings a haircutter to the church.†   (source)
  • Migrants pleading for help when they suffered electric shock is from Guillermina Galvez Lopez.†   (source)
  • Migrants jumped off and ran toward the mountain.†   (source)
  • While riding trains through Chiapas, I witnessed Mexican children pelting migrants with rocks.†   (source)
  • We want to remember the migrants who passed this way.†   (source)
  • These migrants don't talk of The Pilgrim's Train, or of The Iron Horse.†   (source)
  • I have written about migrants, on and off, for two decades.†   (source)
  • Some migrants realize, sitting on the bus, that they can take no more.†   (source)
  • Some migrants, too battered by the beast, die.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, friends say, migrants are killed when whirlpools suck them under.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, the train tops are packed with migrants.†   (source)
  • For part of the journey, the smugglers pack her and sixteen other migrants into the back of a truck.†   (source)
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