The article presents the history of the Attention to Agricultural Workers Program (PAJA) in Hermosillo, Sonora, now extinct. The goal is to explain this federal pro-gram, that focused on agricultural work by migrants, as a part of the formation of a neoliberal state in Mexico. Using political anthropology, the article analyzes the set of practices, ideologies, and representations of the state that gave the PAJA its shape from 1990 to 2018. The text derives from a historical and regional ethnographic study made between 2018 and 2023 on social policies applied to agricultural land in Sonora. The article draws on interviews with former PAJA employees, participant observation in government offices, and the consultation of official documents. The main argument is that the PAJA served to promote the expansion and consolidation of agricultural corporations. The article contributes to studies of the state and migrant agricultural work, by presenting processes of depoliticization, control, and legitimization of the exploitation of labor on agricultural land