Trump cuts threaten futures of 250,000 children of migrant farm workers: ‘We felt like crying’

The Migrant Education Program opened doors for the kids of seasonal farm laborers. The Trump administration wants to axe all its funding

When Regina Zarate-Garcia was a child, she recalled being uprooted from one school district and planted in another as often as the seasons changed.

Zarate-Garcia, now 18, was born in Salinas, California, to farm workers from Mexicali, a city just south of California on the US-Mexico border. I remember my parents getting home and seeing their pants splashed in strawberries, mixed with that familiar smell of pesticides," she recalls.