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Title: Undocumented Mexican workers board buses for deportation, Los Angeles, 1954
Date Created and/or Issued: 1954
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) prepare to board deportation buses at the Elysian Park bus depot in Los Angeles, California.
Type: image
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb2r29n89r
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Foreign workers, Mexican--California--Los Angeles Region
Immigrants--California--Los Angeles
Culture
Deportation--United States
Legal
Undocumented immigrants--United States
Agricultural laborers
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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