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Indigenous Onion Workers in Arvin

12 Mettler

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12 An Onion Field near Mettler
Concepcion Leon, an indigenous Zapotec immigrant from Jutla, Oaxaca, tops onions early in the morning. Onion harvesters work in the morning and evening, and don't work during the early afternoon when the heat is unbearable.

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