Mexican farm laborers then had three choices: stay in Mexico, immigrate permanently through family reunification, or immigrate without authorization.

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Former farm laborers, though, earned substantially more working on Henry Ford's moving assembly lines in Detroit than they did tilling fields.

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Ranjana said she and her husband have had one of the worst years yet as farm laborers, due to drought conditions.

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There's a large percentage of farm laborers.

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