"Recently, when her mother was poised to take her youngest sister into the fields, Gaspar put her foot down. 'I said ‘No, not if I have any say in it,' she recalled.
Gaspar took the night shift at a warehouse so she could care for her sister during the day when her mom was at work. But she said it shouldn’t be up to individuals like her to protect farmworking youth. 'As much as I understood why my parents did what they did, I really wish someone could have advocated for me the way I did for my little sister,' Gaspar said."
~ Leanna First-Arai
"'Every day was a bad day’: Children working in agriculture aren’t protected equally"
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