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There are farmers who contract immigrants from Mexico and pay for their housing all over Texas. One in particular does it at the Plainview Labor Camp who puts at least four people in each apartment and contracts from Mexico every single year, transporting them to here. Those people travel sometimes more than 22 hours on a bus to come and work the fields in West Texas, a place that no one wants to work anymore because the wages are too low to support an American family, above the poverty line. These heroes for our agricultural economy show up with a gym bag of clothes. That's it. And that’s all they use through the summer. They work 16 hour days, rushing off the bus that shuffles them back and forth to the laundry just to try to secure a washing machine, to ensure they can wash the clothes to hang dry them on the clothes line while they have supper. The maintenance men in these camps inform us that they just put three twin mattresses on the floor, taking shifts to sleep. Sometimes, they'd get lucky and have a bed frame. Migrant farmers are humans. They are the backbone of our entire agricultural economy. To vilify people for helping us is a different kind of hate.