VICTIMS Who are the victims of our neglect? First. The migrant child. Nearly a million are children who live in families which subsist primarily by doing migrant or seasonal farmwork. There is no child in America more powerless to change his future. more powerless to escape the cycle of poverty into which he has been born. In addition to the problems which confront every poor child. the migrant child suffers the consequence of constant rootlessness. The image of traveling together as a family is perhaps one of the most cherished of the American culture. But for the migrant child. travel only means a new shack. a new field to work in. and a new school. if any. Travel only increases the pace with which his life is destroyed. The very rootlessness of his life is a monstrous curse.