The Undocumented

A Mexican migrant farm laborer plays guitar on the porch of his group dorm room at a labor camp in rural North Carolina. Migrant farm workers like him, mostly from Mexico and Latin America harvest over eighty percent of crops in the United States. This, as the debate over illegal immigration and what to do about it continues. They live in impoverished camps, and travel from crop to crop, working ten or twelve-hour days in the fields of America's agricultural heartland. Very often they are paying off large debts to smugglers who got them into the country. On days when there is no work, lacking transportation, they have little to do but sleep and lounge around, waiting for another day's work. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)