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Braceros: The Controversial History of US-Mexico Farm Worker Programs with Dr. Matthew Garcia

The Bracero Program began in 1942 as an agreement between the United States and Mexico to bring laborers to the U.S. to replace men who were leaving farms to fight in World War II. The program didn’t end with the war, however, it actually grew by hundreds of thousands of workers, and continued until 1964, […]