"What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?"

Alma Guillermoprieto, Mexican Journalist

Society, Day, Wonder

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"What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?"

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