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46 Coachella
Many of the farm workers picking table grapes in the Coachella Valley are indigenous Purepecha immigrants from Ocumichu, a town in the Mexican state of Michoacan. Demetrio Rafael has been picking grapes for fifteen years, and lives in a trailer camp in the desert, on Avenue 70.

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