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Angelica, seen at 15, picks tomatillos in the Santa Maria Valley. She started working in the fields when she was 11 years old. She says she gets paid $3 for each five-gallon bucket of tomatillos she fills. On a typical workday of about five or six hours, she says she can fill three buckets — earning just $9 for her labor. She described toiling in fields where employers failed to provide shade and drinking water.