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12-Year-Old Alejandrina, One of 100,000 Kids Working in Mexico Farms

An estimated 100,000 Mexican children under 14 pick crops for pay. Alejandrina, 12, wanted to be a teacher. Instead, she became a migrant farmworker, following the pepper harvest from farm to farm. “I think that it’s too late because … I failed myself, for not being in school,” she said.

Part 4 of the LA Times report on Mexico mega farms focuses on the children — who like Alejandrina have sacrificed their education and even childhood — to work in the fields under often inhumane conditions.

With much of the produce harvested by Mexican children going to the United States, this story is really one of US corporations like Walmart, Target and Whole Foods neglecting the social accountability agreements they have made to insure such abuses as those suffered by the children featured in this report do not happen on their watch.

We support calls being made for the Fair Food Program to be extended to Mexico farms. Although the produce industry is promising to improve Mexican farmworker conditions, according to follow up report by the LA Times, we are skeptical and will make sure to inform you on any developments.

For Alejandrina and the 100,000 other children working in Mexico’s agricultural industry, we cannot allow this story to be forgotten.

Read LA Times report: In Mexico’s fields, children toil to harvest crops that make it to American tables

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