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Working 11 hours shifts in corn fields in Mendota is some of the hardest work to do. Add school and immigration court to the mix and you might start losing track of the days, like one teenager who recently moved to the Valley. “I would wake up at 11 at night to make food and leave at about 12:15,” he says in Spanish. “We go into work at 1 a.m. and get off at noon that day.” The 18-year-old says his long graveyard shifts on the corn fields were exhausting. He would lose track of the days while trying to stay in his routine. So now, he says he’s working in the watermelon fields because it fits better with his schedule. The young adult, who we’ll call M, traveled to the United States as an unaccompanied minor. Valley Public Radio is letting him stay anonymous because of fears of violence. “If you’re out on the street you don’t know how can harm you, the police or gangs,” M says. “You don’t feel safe anywhere. You don’t feel safe around gangs or the police.” M says he crossed the border
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