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The Bracero Program was an attractive opportunity for men who wished to either begin a family with a head start with American wages, [64] or to men who were already settled and who wished to expand their earnings or their businesses in Mexico. [65] As such, women were often those to whom both Mexican and US governments had to pitch the program ...
The bracero program is an important chapter of US history that’s long been overlooked, according to Yolanda Chávez Leyva, an associate professor at the University of Texas at El Paso.
Mexican American filmmaker Iliana Sosa's documentary, "What We Leave Behind" tells the story of a grandfather who was part of the "bracero" program. Through a Mexican grandfather's story, the WWII ...
Bracero workers were selected through a multi-phase process, which required passing a series of selection procedures at Mexican and U.S. processing centers.The selection of bracero workers was a key aspect of the bracero program between the United States and Mexico, which began in 1942 and formally concluded in 1964.
From 1950 to 1964 the farm served as a processing center for the Bracero Program which brought Mexicans to the United States as guest agricultural workers. [2] The site was the first permanent reception center for braceros. [1] Rio Vista Farm took on a new role when part of it became a training academy for the El Paso County Sheriff's Office ...
In the mid-1960s, the United States ceased its successful Bracero Program that provided Mexican nationals with expanded access to guest worker visas (thus dramatically reducing illegal immigration ...
The U.S. Border Patrol packed Mexican immigrants into trucks when transporting them to the border for deportation during Operation Wetback.. Operation Wetback was an immigration law enforcement initiative created by Joseph Swing, a retired United States Army lieutenant general and head of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).
But he was completely thwarted by the bracero program and so abandoned the union leader's weapon of direct economic action for the intellectual's weapon of words in hopes of killing the program. A prolific writer, Galarza's best-known work is Merchants of Labor (1964), an exposé of the abuses within the Bracero Program.