United States farmers get a taste of migrant life

As the demographics of the heartland change – populations decline and dairy farms expand – farmers who increasingly rely on a migrant Mexican labor force feel the culture shock endemic to Texas and California decades ago. Former Wisconsin high school Spanish teacher Shaun Duvall began organizing 10-day cultural-immersion trips for farmers to visit Mexico, in the hopes of bridging the culture barrier and helping farmers better relate to and sympathize with their Latino workers. They start to understand the economic forces driving the waves of out-migration from Mexico amid rising American hostility toward immigrants and racism. Full story: Christian Science Monitor