Many people cross our border every year to work in the fields bringing in the much needed crops that feed our nation. Many who cross the border are usually Hispanic in origin with families and they too are seeking a more abundant life for themselves and their family. It seems that often we mistake these people as dumb field workers which is not true. Often these people have some education that they have gotten from their own country and others have been educated in the United States. Many times the field workers have sent their children to our public schools while they worked in the fields trying to support their families. What about the children of these families, what is happening to them today?
The children are growing up and have grown up with a better education and the desire to go on to college in order to pursue a career that will improve their life. The Office of Migrant Education was formed to help these people to attend a Community College or University. The College Assistance Migrant Program is referred to as (CAMP) assists students who are migratory or seasonal farm workers or their children. Undergraduate students who are attending a local Community College or who have applied to a University and been accepted are getting funding that will help them continue in their studies. The program now serves approximately 2,000 CAMP participants annually. There are other nonprofit private agencies that help these students to enable them to continue in college.
You realize by now we are speaking of students who are not American citizens attending our Colleges but understand by helping these students we are helping our neighboring country to improve making the job market better for both sides of the border. People will go where they can survive and support their families without a doubt. The best way to slow this process down is by providing them with the proper tools to survive in their own country. Just as many of the migrant workers stay in our country every year becoming citizens because the work is much better and the life for their family so does the college graduates. Many of these graduates become doctors and lawyers or perhaps a scientist and this truly is a good thing for our nation. We need people who migrate to this country to be able to support themselves but add to our nation as a whole with their skills. The CAMP program is one of the better programs that we have in our nation to help people we need more just like that in order to make our nation and our bordering countries a better place for us all to live.
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