"They’ll pick you right off. You got no name, no property. They’ll find you in a ditch, with the blood dried on your mouth an’ your nose. Be one little line in the paper – know what it’ll say? ‘Vagrant foun’ dead.’ An’ that’s all. You’ll see a lot of them little lines, ‘Vagrant foun’ dead.’"
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 20. When Tom Joad suggests that the Joads are "no sheep" and would fight the injustice of the law, Floyd Knowles warns that that would simply get you killed. Corrupt police would pick you off because migrants have no rights and you would be found in a ditch.