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…California and the southwest, where they worked for extremely low wages as farm laborers. Because they were so poor, they could be made to work for lower wages than native born white workers and were used by employers to drive wages down for everyone. Rather than blaming the employers for this policy, white workers often blamed the Mexican immigrants, creating prejudice against Mexicans and Mexican Americans. The fact that employers had discriminated against the Mexican