Different Perspectives:

• Immigrants
  • Understand what they are getting and are…
    • Happy
    • Upset
    • Unnerved
    • Isolated
    • duty-bound
• Anti immigration
  • People think they take their jobs
• People who don’t have a stance
  • Don’t care about the problem
  • Don’t know about the problem
    • Majority of population doesn’t know about the problem
• Farmers
  • Need the workers for hard, cheap manual labor
  • Most likely don’t want them to be deported
  • Threaten the immigrants in some cases
  • Treat immigrants unfairly
• Activists
  • Want to help the immigrant population
  • Likely to have a skewed perspective on the topic
  • Others want to help but don’t know how
• Police
  • Have to do their job
  • Some respect the necessity of immigrants in Vermont
  • Others racially profile them, leading to their deportation

Questions:

• How are we going to take a new stance on this subject?
• What happens now with President-elect Trump?
• How do we get people to do an interview?
• How much do families of the farmers know about? (Wife, Kids,)
  • Probably don’t want their kids to know… But also might be proud that they are helping people who need help
• Are there female workers on farms?
• Immigrant children…
  • How many are there?
  • What happens to them?

Possible People to Interview:

• Migrant Justice
• Juntos
• Open Door Clinic
• Vermont Folklife Center
  
• Ambassador to Mexico (~Dec. 9-12)
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs in Mexico (Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas)
• Secretary of Finance (José Antonio Meade Kuribreña)
• Secretary of Economy (Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal)
• Border Patrol

Featured photo by Tomas Castelazo