Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, GA
The concrete and corrugated-steel chicken plants loom over this northeast Georgia town's Hispanic neighborhoods like medieval castles.
When Maria Turcios' parents came to Gainesville from El Salvador more than a dozen years ago, they looked up to those plants as their hope for a better life. But to 16-year-old Maria and others who followed that first generation of immigrants, a job hanging birds 12 hours a day would be a sign of failure.
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