Talk:Williams, California

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71% hispanic

why is this town so hispanic? what attracts them here? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 206.15.235.30 (talk) 21:32, 2 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Your question requires close analysis and study of the local economy to brought many Hispanics into the city of Williams and Colusa County has a large Hispanic minority. Agricultural labor is heavily present in the Sacramento valley and Williams is a choice of residence for migrant laborers (most of them are Hispanic), and service jobs as the article mentioned to have many fast food restaurants and motels along Interstate 5 to employed many locals, the majority of those employees are immigrants from Mexico and Central America. Some towns along former US route 99 have became mostly Latino in the last 20-30 years but the area's railroads once employed Mexican rail workers known as 'traqueros' in the turn of the century (1880-1920), those railroad towns are populated by generations of Mexican-Americans at the first place. Williams is sometimes said to have the highest Latino percentage of any town north of Sacramento. 71.102.5.6 (talk) 17:10, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Williams is also a sanctuary city, where law enforcement officials will not allow INS agents handle undocumented immigrants within city limits. 67.49.89.214 (talk) 17:15, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]