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Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Victor is an undocumented Mexican farm worker whose future is increasingly uncertain. What is it like to never feel safe?

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0:00.0	This is Rumbull Strip America Heilen.
0:05.0	Sometimes you are happy but sometimes hold sad.
0:10.0	What are you doing here? But you think how is Mexico? You just keep working. Because you need it.
0:26.0	You really need it.
0:28.0	You are working, but you are not with your family.
0:32.0	You are not seeing how they are getting old.
0:35.0	You're not going to get back this year, these years. Four and a half years Victor's been working on dairy farms in the northeast and like
0:54.5	11 million other people in this country he's undocumented. I'm embarrassed to say
0:59.8	that I've always assumed I knew this story already,
1:03.7	as if it were some kind of composite story
1:06.2	about the Mexican migrant farm worker experience.
1:09.6	And the worst part is, I didn't even know I was assuming this. I guess I didn't really have to think
1:14.8	about it. The story didn't have a lot to do with me. But President Trump has started making
1:21.0	good on his promises to ramp up deportations of undocumented people
1:25.3	in this country, people who pay 12 billion dollars in US taxes every year.
1:31.3	Victor's a friend of a friend of mine and I won't say where he works, but these friends of friends are my neighbors and yours.
1:39.0	Another friend will call her T, agreed to do some translating for me,
1:43.6	along with her brand new baby,
1:45.1	who you'll hear from now and then in this interview.
1:47.8	We visited Victor at his apartment
1:49.7	on the dairy farm where he works.
1:51.6	Here's Victor's story.
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