Micaela Pablo Sanchez is paid $50-$70 for workdays that sometimes last for 12 hours. She sends most of her money to her children in Mexico.

This crew had to move tobacco from one barn to another after part of the first barn collapsed. From left are Elmer Ramirez, Francisco Chaire, Micaela Pablo Ramirez, Fayto de Gezus, Felipe Martinez .

Contractor Ruben Bautista watches as his workers load tobacco onto a trailer.

Although Micaela misses Mexico and her nine children, she likes Kentucky and its people. 'Kentucky is like Mexico, only the roads are better,' she says.

With all of her belongings in plastic bags in the back of a pickup truck, Micaela moved from Cave City to Scottsville in less than a day. She says moving gives her a chance to see different places and meet new people.

'They have told me I am too old to work, but I think while God keeps lending me strength and gives me life to work, I am going to continue to work a little bit more and go to Mexico,' Micaela says.

Micaela knows there are better houses to stay in, but she likes the men she will be living with and said she would feel out of place someplace else. Co-worker and roommate Prudencio Hernandez joins her on the couch. 'Although you don't make lots of money ... you don't lack what you need,' she said.