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“How was it that the United States could send people to Mexico who had never been there?”
Article 9: No unfair detainment
“They are talking about forming a workers’ union and the government and growers don’t like that.”
Article 23: Workers' rights
“Something seemed very wrong about sending people away from their own ‘free country’ because they had spoken their minds.”
Article 9: No unfair detainment
“Some of them say that they will pick cotton for five and six cents a pound, and will pick produce for less. People cannot survive on such low wages.”
Article 23: Workers' rights and Article 25: Food and shelter for all
"We make less money packing asparagus than you do when you pick cotton. Leave us alone. Our children are hungry, too."
Article 23: Workers' rights and Article 25: Food and shelter for all
"When the guard wasn't looking, one of the strikers picked up a rock and threw it at the woman, barely missing her head."
Article 3: The right to life, freedom, and safety
"They found razor blades in and shards of glass in the field bins... When several of them heard a rattliing from beneath a pile of stalks ... [they] found an angry rattlesnake inside."
Article 3: The right to life, freedom, and safety
