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Immigrants

Indigenous Onion Workers in Arvin

16 Taft

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16 An Onion Field near Taft
Savino Alcala and his son Edgar, immigrants from Michoacan, top onions early in the morning. Onion harvesters work in the morning and evening, and don't work during the early afternoon when the heat is unbearable.

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