Improving Mexican farmworker conditions

Migrant farmworkers ride home from the fields past people bathing in an irrigation canal that provides water to the tomato-growing shade houses at the left.

Migrant farmworkers ride home from the fields past people bathing in an irrigation canal that provides water to the tomato-growing shade houses at the left.   (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

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Improving Mexican farmworker conditions has been promised. Now comes the hard part: making that a reality.

Improving Mexican farmworker conditions

Women scrub their laundry on rubble in an irrigation canal at the Campo Isabelita farm labor camp.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Improving Mexican farmworker conditions

Farmworkers purchase items on credit at a labor camp store. Most complain that the prices are double the cost of things in a local market.   (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Improving Mexican farmworker conditions

A resident of Campo Isabel sits near burning embers that he hopes will keep the mosquitos away. There’s no air conditioning or windows in his tiny, corrugated-metal room.   (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Improving Mexican farmworker conditions

Toilet paper litters an outdoor latrine next to Campo Isabelita in Costa Rica, Sinaloa, Mexico. Filthy, non-functioning bathrooms inside the camp force people to relieve themselves outdoors.   (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Improving Mexican farmworker conditions

Rusty corrugated-metal siding separates the 40 small rooms in a long building at Campo San Jose. Concrete beds have no mattresses.   (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Improving Mexican farmworker conditions

Women walk hard-packed dirt paths between long dormitories built from corrugated sheets of metal in Campo San Jose in Villa Benito Juarez, Sinaloa, Mexico.   (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Improving Mexican farmworker conditions

Migrant farmworker Pasqual Garcia and his family stop during their walk home from bathing in an irrigation canal in Villa Benito Juarez, Sinaloa, Mexico.   (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)