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	THE WEEK IN RIGHTS August 30
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US Child Farmworkers Left Behind 

Photo © 2009 Romano 

Certain young unauthorized immigrants, whose parents brought them to the United States as children, will be able, for now, to work legally in the United States under the Obama administration’s deportation deferral program.

But many child farmworkers – who pick the oranges for juice and vegetables for salads – are unlikely to qualify.

Hundreds of thousands of children, as young as 11 or 12, work in the fields. They move around with the harvesting seasons, most changing schools three times a year. Many drop out. That makes it hard to meet the education and other requirements to qualify for deportation deferral.

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