~smiles~ I've spent enough time in Wenatchee and Yakima, went to school in Eastern Wa.
I also worked in Social Services, and have seen the social service agencies run around like mad trying to offer services to these 'poor' people, offering them day care and employment assistance they clearly didn't need. They spend a lot of money on programs and no one shows up, these people know where they're going, and really aren't asking for help.
soooo if you are from Washington state i bet YOU remember when school let out for 2 weeks every fall so we kids could go out and pick fruit! :) that ended when? sometime in the seventies also i think, not because of the mexicans but because there were only a few of us that actually went out and worked!