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24 Laurel, Mississippi
Laurel, Mississippi is a town where many Mexican immigrants have arrived to work in poultry plants over the last decade. Relations are often tense between new immigrants and African Americans, who also work in the plants. Pictured: FEMA trailers, brought into Mississippi to house people displaced by Hurricane Katrina, were bought by local landlords and rented to Mexican poultry workers.

photographs and stories by David Bacon © 1990-1999

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