Raphael Ortigosa picks oranges at the orchard of Joe Russell in Visalia, California on Thursday, March 9, 2017.

40 Acres, birthplace of the United Farmworkers Union.

Antelmo Heredia replenishes with water while working at the Forcast house developement in North Natomas Wednesday afternoon. Ramon Balderas works at the site. Temperatures reached the century mark for the second consecutive day in the Sacramento area.

Mercedez Mendez eats a tortilla with her chicken soup in the kitchen of the Mendez home while her sister Catalina and her mother make more tortillas.

The image of Cesar Chavez, co-founder of the United Farmworkers Union reflects images of march participants wears UFW shirts before the start of the march in downtown Sacramento.

Teenagers volunteer to help take merchandise out for customers at Wallmart in Mexico City in exchange for tips. This program keeps the kids off the streets, helps put cash in their pockets, and keeps the cost of employment down at the store.

Julian Rodriguez (8) a Mexico fan from Oakland, California walks near a giant Mexico flag in the parking lot before the start of the Mexico - Ecuador soccer game at McAfee Stadium in Oakland, California

Every evening throughout the year, the living room in the Victorio home is a sea of little bodies. As many as ten children, carve out space the sofa’s and floor. During the school year, most of the children stay at the MVP home in order to have help with there school work after school, then return home on the weekends. Priscella Sanabria (9) shares a sofa with her sister.

At the cemetery in Rabinal, Guatemala. Raul Ruiz Xitumul (7) spends one last moment at his fathers grave site. He had accompanied his older brother Roberto (21) to do maintance work and leave a candle. Jesus Ruiz Xitumul was dragged out of his home one night in December of 1994 and hacked to death with a machete because of a dispute over the ownership of a plot of land.

Dean Franco of Tracy, California grabs the tail of a bull in the "Colas" competition Thursday afternoon at the "Gran Charreada" in the rink constructed at Sacramento Raceway as Sacramento hosts the largest Hispanic rodeo in the United States.

Construction workers line up for lunch at the company store. They sign away 2 pesos to be deducted from their weekly check at the World Trade Center construction site in Mexico City.

In the early 1980's the United States Government had a heavy hand influencing policy in Guatemala and other Central American countries. In the 1990's the availability of cable television and American imports are changing the way people live their daily life.

Minerva Torrez trails behind a mechanized tomato planting machine pulled by a tractor, making sure the plants enter the soil correctly and moving trays of plants for the workers on the trailer to load. gathering tomato plants and planting them. Minerva begins work at 7am, and finishes at 5:30pm, walking as much as 4 miles a day, planting the plants that didn't enter soil correctly from the conveyer belt at a farm in Yolo County.

Abel Tapia empties a bag of oranges into a crate at the orchard of Joe Russell in Visalia, California on Thursday, March 9, 2017.

Parishiners light candles and pray all hours of the day in the catholic church in San Miguel Acatan, in Guatemala.