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How did the government attempt to help migrant workers during the Great Depression?

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The Great Depression took a toll on California's economy during the 1930s, however, Mexicans and Mexican Americans became targets for discrimination and removal. White government officials claimed that Mexican immigrants made up the majority of the California unemployed.

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The resettlement administration

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the Resettlement Administration, one of the entities that came from Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal policies, established the Arvin Sanitary Camp, which was called Weedpatch Camp in The Grapes of Wrath, just south of Bakersfield, California, to house the migrant workers.

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