Child Labor Video Summary

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Video Response
While watching this video I noticed that the only people that were doing this low level, low pay agriculture job were immigrants. I also noticed that the people in this video were actually kids. Another thing that was shown in the video was how all of the families were so terribly poor, that they were actually content with having their before adolescent children work with them to help them live. In two of the cases in this movie, the kids both started working around seven years of age. I think this is very taboo in the society I was raised in, but the immigrants are so set on making a living in the U.S. that they see it as normal. They all have to chase their crops they work in, depending on the season so they are always moving.
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Children lose their childhood and work like adults in the fields. The concept of that you will have a good life if you come to the U.S. is very misleading. This is not a good way of living. I learned is that most of the people working in these fields are immigrants. These jobs are the lowest paying jobs in our country. Even if an immigrant tried to get a regular U.S. job, it would be hard for them to get in because it seems as we favor ourselves over immigrants. We don’t want immigrants taking over U.S. jobs so it is very hard for immigrants coming to the U.S. to get a job. The concept I linked this to from the text was chapter two when it said one of the values in U.S. society was equality.
I also obtained that migrant children drop out of school four times the national rate. This is because most of them work in the fields for so many hours that it engulfs their lives. They work all day so they have no time for school. Another reason is that they work so much that they are behind in school and don’t know as much as other children. I linked this to the concept is how in the text it says the U.S. values education. This is very contradicting because immigrants come here and then they work so much they can’t even get an education most of the