bracero
noun
bra·ce·ro
brä-ˈser-(ˌ)ō 
-ˈse-(ˌ)rō
plural braceros
: a Mexican laborer admitted to the U.S. especially for seasonal contract labor in agriculture
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But, in reality, braceros often spent as much as 14 hours a day stooping to pick crops and lived in abysmal conditions.
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Nov. 2024
Following the deportation sweeps of 1954, according to UCLA history professor Kelly Hernandez, border patrol officers pressed farmers, particularly in south Texas, to stop hiring undocumented workers and instead avail themselves of the bracero program.
—Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
The American version emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, and got a boost from the bracero migrant worker program of the 1940s through the 1960s.
—Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 15 Aug. 2024
Her mother once fainted at a Del Monte cannery when denied water during a hot shift; her father suffered dehydration several times as a farmworker under the bracero program.
—Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Nov. 2024
Following the deportation sweeps of 1954, according to UCLA history professor Kelly Hernandez, border patrol officers pressed farmers, particularly in south Texas, to stop hiring undocumented workers and instead avail themselves of the bracero program.
—Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
The American version emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, and got a boost from the bracero migrant worker program of the 1940s through the 1960s.
—Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 15 Aug. 2024
Her mother once fainted at a Del Monte cannery when denied water during a hot shift; her father suffered dehydration several times as a farmworker under the bracero program.
—Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
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“Bracero.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bracero. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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