It seemed whenever the United States found a reason to close the door on Mexican immigration, a historic event would force them to reopen that door. Such was the case when the United States entered World War II. In 1942, the United States was heading to war with the fascist powers of Europe. Labor was siphoned from all areas of United States industry and poured into those which supported the war efforts. Also in that year, the United States signed the Bracero Treaty which reopened the floodgates for legal immigration of Mexican laborers. Between the period of 1942 and 1964, millions of Mexicans were imported into the U.S. as "braceros" under the Bracero Program to work temporarily on contract to United States growers and ranchers.
Under the Bracero Program, more than 4 million Mexican farm workers came to work the fields of the United States. Impoverished Mexicans fled their rural communities and traveled north to work as braceros. It was mainly by the Mexican hand that America became the most lush agricultural center in the world.
The braceros were principally experienced farm workers who hailed from regions such as Coahuila, "la Comarca Lagunera," and other crucial agricultural regions in Mexico. They left their own lands and families chasing a rumor of economic boom in the United States.
Large groups of bracero applicants came via train to the northern border. Their arrival altered the social and economic environments of many border towns. Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, became a hotbed of recruitment and a main gathering point for the agricultural labor force.
The Bracero Program contracts were controlled by independent farmer associations and the "Farm Bureau," and were written in English, and many braceros would sign them without understanding the rights they were giving away nor the terms of the employment.
The braceros were allowed to return to their native lands only in case of emergency, and required written permission from their employer. When the contracts expired, the braceros were mandated to hand over their permits and return to Mexico. The braceros in the United States were busy thinning sugar beets, picking cucumbers and tomatoes and weeding and picking cotton.
At the end of World War II, Mexican workers were ousted from their jobs by workers coming out of wartime industries and by returning servicemen. By 1947, the Emergency Farm Labor Service was working on decreasing the amount of Mexican labor imported. By the 1960s, an overflow of "illegal" agricultural workers along with the invention of the mechanical cotton harvester, diminished the practicality and appeal of the bracero program. These events, added to the gross humanitarian violations of bracero employers, brought the program to an end in 1964.
We had already used up our priviliges with the Chinese and Japanese labor......
Pull your head out Bebe.....there's a whole lot more going on in the world than our outdated scripture ( The Constitution ) and what FOX news continually harps on. ....Get a life and go outside for once and talk to living people.... Try to diversify your pinheaded thoughts to aquire a reality that the world is changing.
Why don't you start an illegal aliens vigiante group and do it yourselves - that way you can save us all a bunch on taxes to pay for all government officers to do the job......
Those of you who are purposely obscessed with this illegal aliens issue are gonna have to make up your minds at one point.
Your're the same group that complains about "too much government" and regulations, and yet because this is "YOUR obscession" - you're asking for more government and enforcement.
What's it gonna be ? Make Up Your Minds !!
Oh, then if you do get your way - you'll be the first to whine about how expensive your produce and groceries are.....or how much you pay your house maid........
That's a load of crap ....I have enployed plenty of workers from Mexico and found them twice the worker our spoiled brats are. Almost all of them learned their trade the hard way and came up through the ranks working their butts off - to become fully licensed and legal contractors here in California. They pay taxes just like me and you. This prejudice against Mexicans and laborers is pure white trash hatred and attention getting crap !
I mearly stepped in at the opportune moment to demonstrate that you have the same argument with everyone you attempt to convese with. And, thank you ....I am done now ....I prefer not to get indigestion again ......
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RE: Better then Obama?
They would rave about even their own principles - if it came from the lips of Obama ......