15-05-2017 19:15 via yahoo.com

Working the farm, while Trump talks tough on immigration

By Julia LoveKING CITY, Calif. (Reuters) - On an overcast spring morning, about 40 Mexican men turned out in the pre-dawn hours to board a bus for California's Salinas Valley where they would harvest 16 acres (6.47 hectares) of lettuce over the next three days.Hector Manuel Morales, 20, came north from Mexico to work the fields with his three cousins.While about half of U.S. crop workers are in the country illegally, Morales and the other men have H-2A visas, which allow them to work temporarily
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