Several families to a house/apartment, not very pleasant either. Also, 'other' sub-standard living conditions. In addition, being alone here and from Mexico - you just make do with what you have outside of work.
I know, by the way, that posters here state that it's all about the per hour wages and that is true, for example in the construction industry, but there are a ton of jobs, especially crop work, really smelly critter killing and processing that practically no one will do. Mexicans will do those jobs. We should get real on this point. When is the last time you saw a bunch of white or black people out in a field picking strawberries? Would you if the pay was, for example, doubled? I don't think so. Also, would anyone buy the strawberries if the price was doubled? I'm thinking a lot fewer than now.
I don't see anyone picking anything, since I don't live in an agricultural area. And when I lived in a cotton farming area, I saw MACHINES doing the harvesting.
susie