In my field research in rural areas, many returned migrant workers and college graduates need preferential policies to support them to start business back home.
Sturgis' son Louis, who ran the pretzel house until 1976, used to tell people about how his father got the recipe for a hard pretzel from a migrant worker.
Initially, the U.S. begged Mexico to send workers to help fill a worker shortage in agriculture; however, the flow of workers across the Rio Grande River has not slowed.