
The Immokalee Way
The Thai-Myanmar border and Immokalee, Florida are half a world away from each other, but both locations have a strong pull. In 1994, Ellen and I accepted positions as field personnel with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship to work with migrant hill tribe communities in northern Thailand that had fled conflict in neighboring Myanmar (Burma). These mountain farmers left everything behind to find few resources in Thailand to support their agrarian livelihoods. To survive, man