Migrant workers and other community members take part in the annual Farm workers Festival to celebrate workers and their families. Newton Grove, North Carolina has a large migrant worker population in the summers. The workers are welcomed warmly because of their contribution to the town.
Surprise, Arizona. Birds fly through crops in Surprise Arizona.
A worker picks hot peppers in hundred degree temperatures. Migrant workers mostly from Rio Grande, Texas. Come to Illinois. To work the fields. Most of the workers are Mexicans who live in the United States and migrate from Texas. Many of these workers work under extreme situations. Some get sick from pesticides, others end up injured while working under extreme hot weather conditions and some end up dying on the job.
A migrant camp in Rantoul Illinois. Mexican migrant workers mostly from Rio Grande, Texas, travel to Illinois to work the cornfields. The extreme heat, illness from pesticides, work related injuries and deaths as well as inhumane living conditions are some of the issues addressed in Oxfam/Farm Laborer Organization (FLOC) 2011report on abuse in the industry.
Believers of the Virgin Mary crowd around an apparition of the Virgin Mary located on a wall of an underpass on Fullerton Ave. on April 18, 2005 in Chicago, Illinois. Hundreds of people were drawn throughout the day to the site under I90 near downtown Chicago as rumors spread, people arrived with flowers, candles, crosses, photographs of loved ones and sick children to witness the water stain on a wall that resembled the Virgin Mary.
Young girls dressed as angels hold candles at a vigil against the SB 1070 legislation in Phoenix Arizona.
An estimated 400,000 protesters took to the streets of Chicago Monday May 1, 2006 to show their support for the 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their supporters took part in marches across the country, part of the nationwide boycott, “Day Without an Immigrant.” Chicago’s march was a mostly peaceful and united message to the U.S. Congress which is debating the status of illegal immigrants.
