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The Avena's Migration
This bag of chili to me doesn’t hold that
much meaning, but to all my family in Mexico, it does. This is what
they grow to make a living. They are farmers. They depend on their land
to live. Growing their crops and getting them ready to sell usually
isn’t the hard part, finding someone that will buy from them can be
sometimes more difficult. Everyone where my family lives does the same
thing. They farm and are ranchers. My family is from a small town in
Chihuahua, Mexico called Buenaventura. My grandparents from my dad’s
side came to the U.S. about 45 years ago. They worked in the fields.
They then had kids and my dad later married my mom in Mexico and
brought her back to the U.S. My grandparents decided to come to the
U.S. after a bad hail storm destroyed all of their crops and they had
nothing to live off of.
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