Daughter of Migrant Workers Hopes to Give Something Back

ByRural Neighborhoods

Juanita Mainster’s own life motivates her to rewrite the usual script for children of migrant and seasonal farmworkers. The 42-year-old can easily recall being rounded up by the Border Patrol in fields north of Brownsville, Texas, and deported to Mexico — even though she was a U.S. citizen. “My parents were undocumented, so I got rounded up and thrown in the truck and hauled off with them,” she said.

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