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The limitations on Mexican immigration lasted until the beginning of World War II, when the U.S. found itself short of labor. In 1942 the U.S. and Mexico instituted the Bracero program. Under this arrangement, millions of Mexican laborers were contracted to agricultural work in the U.S.
The federal government responded to the increased levels of immigration that began during World War II (partly due to increased demand for agricultural labor) with the official 1954 INS program called Operation Wetback, in which an estimated one million persons, the majority of whom were Mexican nationals and immigrants without papers, were ...
Agricultural labor shortages associated with World War II brought on another wave of Mexican immigration to Los Angeles. The bracero program, or guest worker program, was a partnership between the US and Mexican governments, as well as American farms, to bring Mexican agricultural workers to the United States through labor contracts. With a ...
The massive immigration waves from Eastern and Southern Europe that characterized the late 19th and early 20th century, as well as 10% of the Mexican population arriving during the Mexican ...
Mexico lived in ideal circumstances for industrialization. The conditions that allowed the accelerated growth of the economy were the origin of the import substitution model that Mexico maintained for several decades since the end of the war. Economically, Mexico's actions in World War II cost the country approximately three million dollars. [24]
Mexican American servicemen in World War II, taken between 1941 and 1944. The United States entered World War II against the Axis Powers on December 7, 1941 after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Several hundred thousand Latino men served in the U.S. military during the war, about 500,000 of whom were Mexican American.
A Mexican woman from a group that calls itself "The Good Samaritans of La Patrona" passes food to Honduran immigrants on their way to the border with the United States in La Patrona near Cordoba ...
After two years, Jose went back to Veracruz to fetch his children; and with his children in tow, he crossed the border on foot around Ciudad Juarez. He was with a group of about 15 people guided ...