Across the Rio Grande into Texas has swept for years an unchecked tide of Mexican immigration. Throughout the Southwest great gangs of dark-skinned peons can be seen repairing tracks on the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe, plodding head down through beet sugar fields, tending endless rows of cotton, mucking about the dirtiest jobs in oil fields. In five years the U. S. has counted, on an average, 56,000 Mexicans per year coming across the border, has failed to count many a thousand more who sneaked over informally. Only one such Mexican immigrant out...
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