David Shipler, a former professor at the prestigious Princeton University, has written a spectacular novel that explains the importance of undocumented workers in the United States. Shipler makes the reader understand the horrific living conditions these precious individuals must endure. He claims that workers have little or no say in their life matters. To elaborate, in chapter four of the novel, The Working Poor, Shipler does an amazing job of conveying his ideas about the importance of undocumented immigrant workers in the United States who endure many hardships. Using pathos, Shipler does a great job showing the reader how these immigrant workers are forced to endure some of the worst living conditions imaginable. They reek of discussion. It's horrible to be there, they prefer to sleep on the floor and are afraid of contracting diseases from sleeping on mattresses” (Shipler 97). Immigrants resort to sleeping on the floor because the beds are so contaminated that they don't want to contract diseases from sleeping on them. It's a sad day when someone can't sleep in a bed after a long, hard day in 100-degree weather picking strawberries for more than 10 hours because the mattress looks like the mattress that Regan MacNeil was chained to and stood on. exercised. Even the bathrooms are dirty, the workers don't even have stalls, only bare bathrooms and showers, these poor workers can't have any privacy. Even more horrifying is the fact that aliens are usually paid well below the minimum wage, around five dollars an hour. More importantly, these mistreated workers are exposed to all the poisonous pesticides that are sprayed on the fruits and vegetables they pick. Even in the winter, when farming is dormant, these migrant workers work incredibly hard all 365 days of the year. Most, if not all, Mexican immigrants send money back to Mexico: as a result, these workers very rarely get to express their feelings about these horrible living conditions because they do not have any type of citizenship from the United States. This means that they are literally unable to complain to anyone because they are afraid of being deported. This fear also prevents immigrant workers from obtaining health insurance and tax returns from the IRS. This also means that there will be no unions or safety inspections to ensure job security for these foreigners. These immigrants do not go out in public in large groups because of the danger that border controls will spot them. On the other hand, the act of crossing the US border is probably the most dangerous feat ever undertaken by these immigrants