“Every day, in trucks and trailers, families are migrating into states of the Pacific Northwest
where agriculture has been relatively prosperous the past year. They are setting themselves up on abandoned farms and undeveloped land, or stopping on the outskirts of town and cities in the of states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho, trying to eke out an existence as common laborers. Some of them are squatting in shacks and makeshift dwellings made of tree branches, stray boards [and] strips of tin.”
