Guest workers, or doves

For the past few weeks, I've been working on a series of stories about farmworkers and the guest worker program that allows U.S. employers to bring foreign-born workers when there are domestic labor shortages. It's a very complex issue, and many people I interviewed speak in code. But behind the policy debate and the coded messages is a tale that affects human beings. I recently found this beautifully written story from the St. Petersburg Times, called La Vida Mejor - A Better Life - which traces the lives of guest workers from their villages in Mexico to their jobs in North Carolina
Read "Leaving Palomas" and the other parts here:
http://www.sptimes.com/News/51099/palomas/palomas-splash.html

And here is the rest of it.