US: Child Workers in Danger on Tobacco Farms

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3. I always think of these as the invisible children -

Here in Texas the public schools have tightened the rules so that you can only miss a handful of days of school in the year - that is specifically targeted at minority workers so the kids are brought back for school in the fall. They do not have the luxurious summer camp experience that many Texas kids experience however - they are up north picking tobacco, pickles, apples etc ... I think many folks have no idea that this goes on nor do many care. And it has been going on a long time - 30 years ago when I was a teen they would come to Wisconsin in vans from Texas to pick various crops. I was a factory kid and would hang out with those kids sometimes when they weren't working. We'd speak a mix of Spanish and English ...