Abstract
Interview with Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa on immigrants and health care in the United States. (05:48)Download “You will spend the rest of your life working in the fields,” my cousin told me when I arrived in the United States in the mid-1980s. This fate indeed appeared likely: a 19-year-old illegal migrant farm worker, I had no English language skills and no dependable means of support. I had grown up in a small Mexican farming community, where I began working at my father's gas station at the age of 5. Our family was poor, and we were subject to the diseases of poverty: my earliest memory is of my infant sister's death from diarrhea when I was . . .
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