Maybe she means working as hard as they did in the fields ? I don’t understand her statement in any other context ?
“Preposterous to say first time she met anyone working in our country was when she was 12 years old, in her first sentence.”
What does that mean? She went to school. There were teachers, building engineers and maintenance workers, etc. - all working. She undoubtedly had mail delivered to her home, and trash pick up, and went to stores with her parents - etc. Unless all these jobs were being done by robots, then her comment is ridiculous. Who writes this stuff?