"After telling the rancher when strangers had robbed lemongrass from his field, he gave them permission to build the shack on his land, and told the local sheriff not to bother them."

You mean there are still people out there that do the right thing? Good to know, I've been losing my ability to look at my fellow human being in a positive light.
This is a sad story, I wish these people luck.

When the media takes pictures, does an article - idoes this mean "help" be on the way? Sounds like they worked something out with the farmer.

In this land of plenty, the top few percent of companies and individual earning most of the money, get all kinds of tax-breaks—we consume 25% of the worlds oil, and the US military is the worlds single biggest consumer of oil. Our collective behavior towards those that have nothing and barely get enough to eat is stunningly shameful.

Where is the investigative media that used to unveil crooked politicians & companies? Where is the voice of the church that should be speaking for the poor?

All we get is the promotion of more wingnuts who are screaming to do away with what little of our social safety-net there is left.

For shame!

...and I ask...why the article on illegals out of work and living in the fields? There are thousands of US born citizens in the exact same situation, an indirect result of low-paid illegals lowering the living standards of the citizens of this country by way of greedy corps looking to hire them at subsistence wages! They need to go to their home countries and deal with their own employment issues there. Now, they are being "counted" as "citizens" in a census that will use those numbers to boost political agendas that do not focus on the true native-born citizens of the US, but on the "poor immigrants" that need our tax dollars to boost their own living standards!!! Can ANYONE NOT see the irony in all of this??

Great. More Mexican poverty being dumped on Joe taxpayer, the world's biggest chump.

Mexican citizens? Mexico's problem. Send them home. Don't listen to the bleeding hearts. For each one of these people, there are hundreds more waiting to come here illegally from all over Latin America if the US does not start finally enforcing its laws. There are now about 650 million people in Latin America, most of them poor and a good of whom are lining up to come here to overwhelm this country's social safety net. If you want to destroy this country, all you need to do is listen to the open borders crowd, and let this farce continue another decade. Then we will look just like Mexico or another one of these Latin American oligarchies, with 75% of the people living like this. Don't say it won't happen. Look at Texas and California and Arizona and New Mexico. It is already IS happening there.

And next time, why don't you show some photos of the victims of all the illegal alien rapists and drunk drivers and murderers, and of the other US citizens whose lives have been wrecked by illegally importing the dregs of Mexico?

And at least they're honest laborers beneath the open heavens, rather than the Obamanible lie-in-state dinner hall cockroachs, the British Petroleum jellies slithering up from the seafloor or the vampire yids descending from wine-dark skies to torment the rest of US free-living creatures of Mother Earth, who don't have to "Lie OR Die", and Simply LIVE, instead!

i'm an American living in Germany. i have a job here. i'm sure that there are Germans who could do my job and would like to have it. whether we like it or not the world works in a different way now. anybody carping about latinos "taking jobs away from Americans" should ask themselves if they would do what these people are willing to do for the wages they get. they should also ask themselves if they would be willing to join a union. forming a union and getting enough people to join is the only way that workers can actually have a voice in what corporations do. America used to have strong unions. when it did, workers made a decent wage. unions aren't perfect but until we come back to them nothing will change.

Bless the rancher and bless the sheriff. California is a much too expensive state to live for people who lack abundant resources.  Do these folks know that there are other places in the US where the rent is low and jobs for the unskilled/uneducated are plentiful?  Maybe we're presuming that they do not like living simplistically and in the open air foraging for their meals.  There are prosperous Americans living in South American jungles doing the same thing, living simply and foraging in the wild (and making a good living from it!), so maybe this is just another example of people who prefer living in the wild and foraging?  By the photos, these people don't appear to be miserable and starving. I don't know, but I think this topic is worthy of deeper, more probing research.  It could be a trend that some humans are leaning towards--humans from all economic strata. I think this article just skims the surface of what may be a new trend developing any many countries--not just the US.

And now that your story has identified their location and shown their photos, can we expect immigration authorities to boot them out?

US jobs and those of other northern tier nations are being exported to China and other countries where labour is cheap and workers are mistreated.

This is another disgrace brought to you by NAFTA. I, too, see migrant workers in my area. They are good people and I hope they will be left alone. California's farm workers have been 90% illegal, in recent years. They also work under conditions that are very bad, on some of the farms, including lack of sufficient water and shade. It's like slavery. This is where our fruits and vegetables are coming from, people.

During the election campaigns, and right after the Democratic primaries, I think it was Clinton and Obama who campaigned regarding the AgJobs bill that would provide legal pathways for agricultural workers, improving work conditions, and provide incentives to stay in agricultural work for X number of years -- to counter this attrition rate -- which was about 25% -- hopping the fence into other industries illegally. That is, stay in farm work for X number of years (I think the bill was 3), and you can have the option of another X number of years towards citizenship (or something like that). IOW, it was one of the fewer constructive bills on the table in this entire debacle, that would actually address some of the issues.

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They should pass AgJobs supported by the United Farmworkers Union, and throw out NAFTA and CAFTA.

Here's a great modern version of an old time American favorite, "Pastures of Plenty" by Woody Guthrie, performed by Solas @ youtube.com/watch?v=oPVGTENR8DM

Will those in favor of immigration tell us where you live? Also tell us how we can assimilate all of Latin America if we do not control our borders and enforce immigration laws? When the deer population exceeds the food supply we hunt them down. How long before this whole scenario turns into a full blown Civil War?

If Congress had the balls, they should haul Bill Bubba Clinton before congress and let him explain how the working classes in this country gained from his promotion of Nafta and Cafta.
The Clintons are getting away with Murder and Treason. Time for a wake-up call to the Working Classes. Rebel against your own Democratic Party who have sold us out. We need real honest leadership that we cannot find.

Grapes of Wrath: Redux.

Instead of an "Okie" invasion, we have an Hispanic invasion. But these folks, like the Joads, are not despicable parasites bent on destroying the U.S. economy and stealing others' jobs. On the contrary, they are quite often honest, hard-working folks looking to get by in an increasingly harsh world.

Farming is simply not profitable when farmers are forced to pay decent wages. So they actively search for workers who will accept subsistence level wages. That is why the Mexicans are in our country. They are here because businesses want (and need) them here. When the work runs out and the fruit has been picked, however, we expect them to scamper back to their country or to camp "out of sight, out of mind."

Don't blame the workers, blame the system. Until we move away from a globalized, "race to the bottom" economy and toward a localized, nation-state economy, this sort of problem will be endemic.

The MSM tries to stir up hatred of immigrants when in fact the only opposing forces in this country are the people who work for a paycheck VS the top one percent who own everything. Thats the only confrontation that is going on. The Mexicans are our brothers (and sisters). I was always impressed by the kindness and honesty and humility of the vast majority of Mexican people I have met. I feel much more kinship to them than the elitist yuppy ownership class.

wow, not that unusual though. The problem here is not illegal immigration, the problem is capitalism and it's unhealthy use of resources along with nonexistent competition. It doesn't take a genius to see that competition is the last thing that big corporations want. If there is no competition they can charge higher and higher prices and retain higher and higher profit margins. Central America suffers tremedously from this lack of competition among business. Cent. America could easily support itself but those farmers are undersold by the global economy. This is the future of the USA. Get used to it, it will become more common every year with this world wide collapse of capitalism.

Skimming the comments here, I'm flabbergasted by how many idiots are scornful of these people. They're not doing anything more than existing on land without demolishing it... which is more than can be said of anyone with a job.

From the point of view of this planet, all of us typing have a hand in its demise... as opposed to the people of this article who don't even seem to be using the irrigation systems that are killing off all the salmon. Indigenous life is the only way to exist sustainably. Our culture has practically wiped out all indigenous societies... and we're more than likely going to die as a result.

So quit bitching about the economy and immigration, your words are better spent focused on the policies rather than fellow victims. Better yet: quit bitching altogether and start living off the grid in communes in the woods...

To the American living in Germany:
you are there legally, and the govt encourages you to be gainfully employed.

We do have this problem in the US: workers brought in (India etc) who are legally here, work for much less and fewer benefits, and do take jobs from native born people ...our companies (Microsoft for example) tells the govt they can not get skilled workers and need more green cards issued. But talk to workers out of jobs and they will tell you they can not get job, or were dropped, so less expensive foreign workers can replace them.

to writer at 02:14 who answered me (American living in Germany):
yes, i have legal status and documentation. i am one of the privileged. everything that you say points to the systemic problem: a dystopic world in the stranglehold of corporate capitalism and overpopulation.
Americans in the southwestern states have a huge problem. and it isn't going away. international corporations are responsible. various corporations arranged for assembly plants to be built in places like Ciudad Juarez ( just across the border from El Paso) which attract workers from all over Central America. violent crime in Juarez has created an atmosphere of terror there. there were more than 1,600 murders in Juarez in 2008.
so, if the options are 1. starving in your little village, 2. going to Juarez for a job and dodging bullets, knives or worse or, 3. taking your chances in a farm field in California or Arizona what would you do?

It sounds like our country was built on the blood and tears of the original owners...the native Americans...and these innocent people are their descendents ?? Therefore, the land they farm and the trees they harvest once belonged to them???
Our country has slashed it's way to the top of the dung heap...and we will get the reward of our ignorance and arrogance....

To fahrender: if you're working in Germany, could it be because you couldn't find a job in America? I spent Saturday at a flea market, where the half dozen people I spoke to were there because they had lost a job and couldn't find another one. They were buying and selling anything they could to survive.

This country is in a depression; we don't need unemployed illegals making things worse. I may feel sorry for these men, but they still don't belong here.

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It is leverage that would be well served since Mexico appears to have an extraordinarily high interest in seeing its citizens enter the U.S. for work, but the same interests at work in their country, opposing health care as a human right that should be guaranteed for all its citizens.

I don't really expect that we could accomplish something this sane, but one might as well talk about sanity against the odds, since there's not much else one can do.

I do see, though, that this man needs dental care, has a situation in his mouth that is potentially life threatening, and that many people in both of our countries live with virtually third world health conditions when it comes to dentistry.

The fact that our elected representatives have mouths worth about 20,000 in cosmetic dentistry alone is actually not a reflection what is actually going on with dental care in America.

To Sharonsj: i resigned a job in the U.S. after working there for thirty years. i work in Germany because i enjoy living in different places. i've also worked in Russia, Sudan and Venezuela. there could come a time when i will lose my job as could also happen to you.
the economic collapse we are facing is world-wide. it doesn't stop at borders. hope motivates people. the United States is a symbol of prosperity to needy people in many parts of the world and many of them try in whatever way they can to come to the U.S. even though the reality may not be what they imagine.
the "unemployed illegals" as you label them are found to be useful to some Americans or they probably wouldn't be here. the border with Mexico and the U.S. is far too long to be sealed, that of Canada and the U.S. is even longer. attempting to keep people out is pretty much impractical for financial reasons. that's what this is all about anyway: money. follow the money and you'll see why.

I am amazed that there are so many who are ready to give an "anonymous" opinion and unwilling to put their name to their statement. I rejoice that there are a few who do but still it is difficult to see by what life experience and authority they offer their comment. Utilizing the unused land in the orchard where they are squatting is a valid solution but it requires capital for tools, fertilizer, and seeds.
 
Repealing Nafta and Cafta could well give relief to subsistence farmers who have been hurt by a flood of cheep imports.
 
But why are we spending a considerable sum on building a wall, putting up surveillance cameras, and boarder patrols which are not answering the demand for  labor that is not filled by local people? The Government should determine the demand, go to the source and recruit workers, sign them to a contract, transport them back and deliver where needed. Those work places should then be monitored to make sure at least the minimum wage is paid, that workers are not unfairly charged for accommodation or food and that work places are safe. At the end or a six months or year's contract, they should be transported home.

As for the person who ask where churches were in helping the needy, it would appear that he/she is not a member of a mainline church for all of them have their outreach.
I am a member of the United Church of Christ and expressed by appreciation of Christ's message of love by spending eleven years working for non-Whites at Mcord Hospital, Durban, S. Africa at a low wage. Incidentally, that Hospital has now celebrated its Century and its Sinekithemba program, a holistic approach to the problem of HIV/AIds is lauded as the best in Africa.
 

Amazing -- not a piece of trash in sight!

How curiously out-of-character. Of course the photographer didn't sanitize the site first, right?

At any rate, this story (unintentionally) confirms the US now has a surplus of illegal aliens, even by the old canard that they are "just doing the work the lazy gringos won't do."

Helpful hint: These folks ought to practice some serious birth control -- that's easily done, if they choose to. Too bad the subject's taboo.

"The camp used to be located in another orchard nearby, but the workers were burned out. "

Who burned these people out? Could this be the cause of so many wildfires in Cali?

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