Katie Dell Murphy who with her husband and eight children live in a tworoom shack with no hot water. with three beds and an income of $125 each month if there is work. $65 of which is paid in rent to the chairman of the board of the bank. Her children never have fresh milk at home and seldom have meat. We heard that migrants in Collier County often live there 8 months of the year. traveling as far north as Michigan in summer to find work. We heard that if the migrants left Immokalee at harvesttime. Collier Countys $40 million farm economy would collapse. But theseSaid the county commissioners are Federal people... not Immokalee people. Theyre not Collier people. theyre not Florida people. "Federal people" they said were not theirs to feed. "We take care of our own." they said. with $7.500 for food out of their county welfare budgetenough to feed 24 people an adequate diet for a year. Their "own" does not include the 22.000 Collier migrants and their families who harvest Colliers $40.000.000 farm crops. go to its schools. buy food from its grocery stores. and live in its slumlords wretched shacks. When we left the reaction was quick. The chairman of the county commissioners told the press: We know we had three strikes on us.
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Migrants are described as 'Federal people' who are not the responsibility of the local community.