Federally Sponsored Immigrant Workers

“Federally Sponsored Mexican Migrants” is an article written by Sandy Smith-Nonini about the use of migrant workers, in this case from Mexico, coming to work in the US legally.  The most important element of this concept is that legal does not translate into ideal or fair whatsoever.  Although these workers are able to make a better living by working in the United States (this article focuses on North Carolina in particular), they are often taken advantage of by those who control the labor and the money involved.  Even the H2A program that is set up to assist with these “federally sponsored” workers from Mexico is not without its fair share of faults.  Leroy Dunn’s H2A program is quite deceiving in the fact that the brochures show West Coast crops, not crops from the East Coast like North Carolina.  Also, the wording of the brochures is not in layman’s terms, it is worded above the level that the immigrant workers could easily understand.