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How did an increase in Mexican immigrants help the United States?
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Mexican immigrants, who were exempted from immigration quotas, helped power the industrialization of the Southwest. They provided cheap labor for agriculture, mining, and railroad work, and they worked on the enormous irrigation projects under the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902.
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