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Indigenous Onion Workers in Arvin

24 Taft

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24 An Onion Field near Taft
Jesus Meza, a farm worker from Mexicali, gets ready to sleep in an onion field. Meza was working in a crew topping onions late at night, and had no place in any nearby town to stay.

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