41 Coachella



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		41 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. Otilia Esteban Nicolas has been picking grapes for six years, and lives in a trailer camp in the desert, on Avenue 70.

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