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Title: Undocumented Mexican workers arrested in rail yard, Los Angeles, 1953
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Undocumented Mexican workers (identified as "wetbacks" in a handwritten notation on the negative) are discovered and arrested by a Los Angeles police officer in a Southern Pacific rail yard.
Type: image
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb1b69n7r2
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Foreign workers, Mexican--California--Los Angeles Region
Crime
Mexican Americans
Legal
Undocumented immigrants--United States
Mexicans--United States
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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