Coachella Grape Pickers
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70 Coachella
At the height of the grape harvest, many workers eat and sleep next to
their cars in two parking lots in Mecca, a small farm worker town in the
Coachella Valley. The growers and government authorities do not provide
housing for seasonal grape pickers. Jose and Arcelia Hernandez come from
San Luis, Arizona, on the Mexican border 200 miles to the south, to pick
grapes every year.
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