That’s what you think! Ever hear of the border patrol on the California line? Police from Los Angeles – stopped you bastards, turned you back. Says, if you can’t buy no real estate we don’t want you. Says, got a driver’s license? Le’s see it. Tore it up. Says you can’t come in without no driver’s license.
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 12. A tire salesman on Highway 66 reveals the harsh reality for migrant workers trying to get into California. They have to fight to get into the state, and face hostile border patrol police who stop them and turn them back.