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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Texas farmer, Mexican fieldworker reunite in Pacoima after 51 years
PACOIMA, CALIFORNIA -- A Texas farmer who aided a lost Mexican field
worker and sponsored him for U.S. citizenship 51 years ago, will be
reunited with the former fieldworker, relatives said Saturday.
Samuel Perez was separated from a bus hauling Mexican workers with
temporary U.S. work permits near an isolated west Texas farm town in the
1950s. The lost and hungry worker knocked on a farmhouse door seeking
work, and the farmer, Clarence Martin, of Friona, hired him.
Martin taught Perez English and citizenship skills. After becoming a
U.S. citizen, Perez married and moved to Los Angeles, where he raised a
family.
The farmer and the former field hand will see each other for the first
time in a half century Saturday in Perez's Pacoima home, said Perez's
son, Samuel Perez Jr.
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