The government the leader created is a dictatorship, dictatorships don't have free speech, and the government leader can do quite literally anything he/she wants.
Because it allowed them to not only water their crops during the planting season,but also allowed them to take their crops to market in New Orleans and sell them
They were not treated well, they were immigrants looking for a better life in the US and they worked for lower wages which took away jobs from people that had been in the US in many industrial cities
