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Mario Olmos Martinez, 20, an H-2A worker from Veracruz, Mexico, moves a pallet to support a box of canteloupe on the first day of a 10-week harvest at Jackson Farming Company in Autryville, North Carolina. Ted Richardson/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT
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Salvador Olmos Riano, an H-2A worker from Veracruz, Mexico, wipes sweat after unloading canteloupe. Riano, along with his son Mario, came to the U.S. legally through an agricultural guest-worker program that -- among the dozens of provisions being debated in the Senate's immigration reform proposal -- seems to be one of the few things many Washington politicians can agree on. Ted Richardson/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT
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Salvador Olmos Riano, an H-2A worker from Veracruz, Mexico, unloads canteloupe on the first day of a 10-week harvest at Jackson Farming Company in Autryville, North Carolina. Ted Richardson/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT
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Salvador Olmos-Riano, an H-2A worker from Veracruz, Mexico, stirs soup after serving some to his son Mario Olmos-Martinez, also an H-2A worker. Both men are assigned to Jackson Farming Company, and live in housing provided by the company in Autryville, North Carolina. (Ted Richardson/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT)
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Salvador Olmos Riano (back right) returns to his assigned trailer at Jackson Farming Company in Autryville, North Carolina where fellow workers, including his son, Mario Olmos Martinez (center), 20, were eating a late dinner. (Ted Richardson/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT)
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