In California. where average farm wages are among the highest farm wages in the countryabout $1.20 per hourthe rate paid to American workers in the Imperial Valley. which is largely dominated by Mexicans. has remained approximately 70 to 75 cents an hour. This is a situation that feeds on itself. If low farm wages are permitted to continue. more and more farmworkers must either become migrants or seek nonfarm jobs. Each year tens of thousands of American workers leave Texas for higher paying jobs in the Northwest and Great Lakes States. while Mexicans are brought into Texas for lower paying jobs. Thousand of workers migrate from New Mexico each year to Colorado and other States because they are unwilling to toil at the prevailing. but substandard. rate of 50 cents an hour.
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