Annotations for People: Schneider-mark

The sad thing is, here in El Paso, in southern New Mexico, even the minimal laws are not complied with and they're broken more than they're complied with.

I think it's probably the worst of any place in the country because of our day hall system and that means that people are recruited one day at a time, they spend four to five hours a day in old dangerous school buses going a hundred to 120 miles away to work, picking chile in 100, 110-degree heat on a piece rate. They don't even make minimum wage for time in the fields, let alone for travel time, and the workers are made homeless. These are people who maybe have homes, but they have to sleep in the streets of El Paso so they can get a job every day.