File:It's back to Mexico for these farm workers who were picked up by the border patrol at Calexico for illegal entry, May 1972 (7152584973).jpg

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Original Caption: It's back to Mexico for these farm workers who were picked up by the border patrol at Calexico for illegal entry. Higher U.S. wages attract 300,000 wetbacks annually, especially to work on rich farm lands watered by the Colorado River, May 1972


U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-6593

Photographer: O'Rear, Charles, 1941-


Subjects: Blythe (California) Environmental Protection Agency Project DOCUMERICA


Persistent URL: research.archives.gov/description/549079

Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.

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Date Taken in May 1972
Source It's back to Mexico for these farm workers who were picked up by the border patrol at Calexico for illegal entry, May 1972
Author The U.S. National Archives
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Camera location33° 36′ 37.4″ N, 114° 35′ 55.82″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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