It is entirely possible that if they are. as the gentleman describes them. stationary. they are .covered. But a migrant can get covered the same way if he will go in and lie and say. I live here in town and I do not intend to go looking for work up the road as the crops turn. The problem is that a person today who considers himself stationary may hear tomorrow that they are picking up in Arkansas. and off he goes. and he becomes a migrant. These people are not registered migrants or something of the kind. We will find a family that. for whatever reason. decides to sit out a season and become one of these stationary families. Maybe a kid is getting ready to graduate or something of the kind. or part of the family stays there. or maybe there is an illness and one of them is in the hospital. so they leave some of the family behind to stay with that person in the hospital. But their condition and definition as a migrant versus a seasonal farmworker is not capable of the kind of finite sifting that the doctors amendment would make necessary. What we are going to do is force these people to lie just to get medical care.
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