How to pronounce “fermin” in English

For Fermina, it was a great-paying job.

For Fermina and people like her, it enabled great profits.

Behind graphs of growth were workers like a woman named Fermina-- whose name actually wasn't Fermina.

In 1982, Fermina had worked at an electronics assembly plant in Tijuana where she had earned $0.65 an hour, quote, "soldering gold filaments to nodes

Then the peso destabilized, and Fermina crossed the border to stay with relatives and look for work.

In the plant, hundreds of Mexicans worked alongside Fermina, many of them undocumented just like her.

Because when the INS raid came through in November of 1984, Fermina hid in a supply closet, terrified.

Quote, "I came to this country to work hard, but now I live torn between duty and shame." Fermina was not alone.