Cabbage cutting and hauling by new Vessey (flat truck) system, now also used in carrots and lettuce, Imperial Valley, California (1937) by Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp for migratory agricultural workers. Meeting of the camp council, Farmersville, California (1939) by Dorothea Lange
Filipinos cutting lettuce, Salinas, California (1935) by Dorothea Lange
(Image: Monterey Historical Society)
A "migrant worker" is a person who either migrates within their home country or outside it to pursue work. Migrant workers usually do not have the intention to stay permanently in the country or region in which they work. (Migrant workers in California, 1935: Wikipedia)
1930: During this decade, some 1.3 million Americans from the Midwest and southwest migrated to California, which had a population of 5.7 million in 1930s. The arrival of Okies and Arkies set the stage for physical and ideological conflicts over how to deal with seasonal farm labor and produced literature that resonates decades later, as students read and watch "The Grapes of Wrath" and farmers and advocates continue to argue over how to obtain and treat seasonal farm workers. (https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=788)
Today: An estimated 14 million foreign workers live in the United States, which draws most of its immigrants from Mexico, including 4 or 5 million undocumented workers.
Green card workers are individuals who have requested and received legal permanent residence in the United States from the government and who intend to work in the United States on a permanent basis. The United States’ Diversity Immigrant Visa (DV) Lottery program authorizes up to 50,000 immigrant visas to be granted each year. This help facilitate foreign nationals with low rates of immigration to the United States a chance to participate in a random drawing for the possibility of obtaining an immigration visa. (Wikipedia)