The same thing was happening just 80 years ago in our own country: > California was emphatically not the promised land of the migrants' dreams. Although the we

The same thing was happening just 80 years ago in our own country: > California was emphatically not the promised land of the migrants' dreams. Although the weather was comparatively balmy and farmers' fields were bountiful with produce, Californians also felt the effects of the Depression. Local and state infrastructures were already overburdened, and the steady stream of newly arriving migrants was more than the system could bear. After struggling to make it to California, many found themselves turned away at its borders. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tsme.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tsme.html