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"ref": "1958 October 11, “Signs of improvement”, in Business Week, page 36:",
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"ref": "1984, Richard H. Blum, Offshore Haven Banks, Trusts, and Companies, New York: Praeger, →ISBN, page 31:",
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"ref": "2001, Cindy Hahamovitch, “In America Life is Given Away”, in Catherine McNicol Stock, Robert D. Johnston, editors, The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 136:",
"text": "Though American legislators renewed restrictive immigration policies in the two decades after the war, they allowed employers of farmworkers to import some 4.5 million Mexican \"braceros\" and Caribbean \"offshores,\" as the workers were called.",
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