Like many Mexican workers coming to the United States in the early part of the twentieth century, the allure of a new place and the promise of prosperity—or at least an equal chance at achieving it— drew many immigrants across the border. Despite the overthrow of dictatorial president Porfirio Díaz during the Mexican Revolution and the establishment of land reforms, many of Mexico’s poorer residents still found themselves struggling to achieve some degree of upward mobility and thus set out for the United States in hopes of better opportunities. Many Mexican migrants did find work in the United States more abundantly but not better wages, so many returned to Mexico as the effects of the revolution receded into the past. From 1926 to 1929, the Cristero War, a conflict between Mexican Catholics and the anti-Catholic government of President Plutarco Calles, drove many Mexican Catholics across the border once more to escape the violence of the movement. Mexican migrants found themselves once again forced to take on low-paying agricultural jobs in the United States.