In the summer of 2024, Golden Gate Fields, the biggest horse racing track in northern California, shut down and moved the business to southern California. With the closure came uncertainty and mass displacement for hundreds of migrant workers and their families who had been living and working in the backstretch of the track, many of them for decades. In less than a month, Berkeley saw an exodus of almost 500 Latinx residents, mostly Mexicans, who had left quietly and out of sight in the same way that they had lived behind the gated city of the Golden Gate Fields.