" The farther down the ladder from Anglo-American U.S. citizen to undocumented indigenous Mexican one is positioned, the more degrading the treatment by supervisors, the more physically taxing the work, the more exposure to weather and pesticides, the more fear of the government, the less comfortable one's housing, and the less control over one's own time. Of course, the people on every level of the hierarchy suffer. Yet suffering is also roughly cumulative from top to bottom. "

― , Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States