Sugar Beet Immigrants

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Sugar Beet Immigrants

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Mexican immigrants first arrived in Nebraska to harvest sugar beets in the early 1900s. For over a hundred years, the demand for their labor and policies to turn them away have shaped parts of Nebraska's economy. In this episode of Once Again, we visit Scottsbuff to talk with those familiar with history and people who worked in the sugar beet fields.

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