How to Use bracero in a Sentence

bracero

noun

• The old bracero says his heart wants to go on for many years to come.
  — Selene Rivera, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
• Oak View is very different from when his father arrived in the 1950s to work as a bracero.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• The 85-year-old first came to the United States as a bracero working in California's tomato fields decades ago.
  — Jaqueline Hurtado and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 29 Sep. 2019
• My father was a bracero, and obtained legal status here.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2019
• Filberto was brought to the U.S. legally by his father, who was part of the bracero Mexican labor program.
  — Peter Martinez, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2019
• A program like the old bracero program that would allow seasonal workers to come across, work in agriculture and construction and then return home.
  — Morgan Smith, The Denver Post, 4 Jan. 2017
• Ornelas, also the grandson of a bracero, moved to Salinas as an undocumented immigrant at age 4.
  — Nick Lozito, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Nov. 2021
• Back then, Mexican workers would come across the Rio Grande River under temporary work permits granted under the bracero program.
  — T. Christian Miller, Propublica, Kiah Collier and Julian Aguilar, star-telegram, 14 Dec. 2017
• In 2014, Ornelas invited the Silvas and nine other bracero families to a Stanford celebration.
  — Nick Lozito, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024