Immigration Reality: Migrant farm workers: Fields of tears

A close-up look at the lives, the trials and the desire to survive of "illegal"immigrants working in the fields of California. Another good piece of journalism from the British.

Migrant farm workers: Fields of tears | The Economist: "People like the Vegas will always keep coming, no matter the fences that go up on the border and the helicopters that circle above. For they are like the Joads. As Steinbeck wrote: “How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him—he has known a fear beyond every other.”" Jan. 16, 2011