Taking from migrant workers

"American society gains much from migrant laborers and gives little back beyond criminalization, stress, and injury. This dishonest relationship must change."

Seth M. Holmes, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2013), ch. 7 (Kindle location 3693)

We take luxury for granted

      Near the end of my research Samuel [a migrant farmworker] told me, "Right now we and you are the same; we are poor. but later you will be rich and live in a luxury house [casa de lujo]." I explained that I did not want a luxury house but rather a simple little house. Samuel replied, looking me in the eyes, "But you will have a bathroom on the inside, right?"

Seth M. Holmes, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2013), ch. 3 (Kindle location 1688)