Amexicán AsF

Remember that time the U.S. asked Mexico to send its hard-working men and save the U.S. agricultural economy during war time? That time from 1942 to 1964, when ...the U.S. offered Mexican men 4.6 million contracts through The Bracero Program because many American growers feared World War II would bring labor shortages to low-paying, arduous, agricultural jobs scorned by most Americans? And then they kept renewing it, and asking them to continue to come to the U.S. because U.S. growers needed the cheap labor. This is how circular migration from Mexico to the U.S. was encouraged. This is why it continues today. This is the history of the Mexican immigrants some Americans now scorn. The Bracero Oral History Project http://braceroarchive.org/ For more on the program: http://amhistory.si.edu/onthemove/themes/story_51_5.html