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Many of the agricultural workers in Pajaro, Calif., are not fluent in English or Spanish and so relied on interpreters to get proper assistance and services after a levee broke, flooding the farm town and sparking evacuations.
An estimated 170,000 Indigenous Mexican farmworkers live in California, contributing to its booming economy. Researchers say 6 in 10 farmworkers in the state are Indigenous.
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