***VIDEO *** Braceros program during WWII to encourage Mexicans to come here for jobs

[Figarosmom]

You should go to youtube to watch it and read the comments for more info about the people who came here on this program and how they were treated.

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[alwaysinasnit]

1. My father was one of these workers, and it is the reason I am here today. Thank you for sharing.

[Figarosmom]

3. I have friends

Whose parents also were part of this program. I'm glad they came because they are good friends and I'm richer for having them. I really loved their tamales on holidays too.

[alwaysinasnit]

7. ...

[marble falls]

2. That program went on into the 60s.

[Figarosmom]

4. I wish they renewed it.

I'm sure the visa programs are like this but they are according to industry, have low available visas and are exploitable with lower pay rates. We need new immigration laws. And visas should not be able to be pulled by the Presidents whims.

[Timewas]

5. Always wondered

Why it was stopped, seemed like the perfect answer

[Figarosmom]

6. Probably set to run out after a given time

Then would have to be renewed.

[marble falls]

8. Getting rid of it meant lower wages across the board for workers, not having to meet Federal and state requirements ...

... regarding treatment of workers. It made workers less likely to complain or organize by making them "illegal".

[Timewas]

10. Probably it n/t

[hardluck]

9. Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)

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[MineralMan]

11. I grew up in a California citrus farm town during that period.

The bracero program was full of corruption and maltreatment of the workers. I saw it. Most grownups in that town looked the other way. The program continued right up until I graduated from high school in 1963 and moved away from there. It poisoned that town and surrounding communities.