Deep into the Orchard Summary and Analysis

Ted arrived at Phoenix and found that there were orchards in a suburb called El Mirage. Ted learned that many of the workers camped out deep in the orchards in order to better avoid detection by immigration police. Ted met up with Lupe Sanchez who agreed to take Ted into one of the camps with the understanding that Ted would help teach English to the laborers. He and Ted arrived at a dilapidated house and discovered that there was a group of about fifty men living there. Sanchez talked some business with the men then introduced Ted. He assigned two men who know some English, Carlos and Victor, as Ted's "assistants." Ted soon learned that Carlos spent a semester at Oregon State University on an agronomy scholarship. There were several others who were also fairly...