“...over a decade ago...”
The use of farm workers coming across the southern border from Mexico into California was in use in the 1940’s. They have been used as a voting base for a few decades in the state. And many of them just disappeared after the elections, some going south back to Mexico with large gains of money and products. You could have a hard time finding a seat on a greyhound on Friday nights if you were going anywhere from north of Sacramento to LA as the buses were full of Mexican nationals heading home with money and appliances. And if you did , you better be the first one on the bus to get the seat right behind the driver.
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WESTERN UNION has made MILLION from those ‘workers’ showing up & sending $$$$$$$ back to their home countries. NOTHING was ever done to halt it.
Personally saw such lines in large AG town 35 miles from me in 2006. I was getting photos made from a CD so I could put them into a scrapbook (3000 +) and the lines on a FRIDAY & A SATURDAY were out the door.
Didn’t have to be a genius to see they were Hispanic & what they were doing. The clerk for that line never left his station.