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TIL having expulsed Mexican migrant workers in 1965, a program was created to replace the missing labor with American youth. 3300 teenagers ended up picking crops as a summer job. The conditions were so bad that within 2 weeks 200 had quit and many held strikes. The program was never tried again

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