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These intimate photos chronicle the Mexican worker program that helped ‘feed and build America’
Then these ‘braceros’ were just expected to return to their country
By Brendan Seibel Sep 7, 2017 · @medium
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When American men were heading overseas to fight Nazis and the Japanese, they left behind their homes and loved ones. But they also left behind the fields, leaving agricultural producers wondering who was going to harvest the crops. Meanwhile, the Mexican economy was devastated by revolution and depression, and the country was filled with poor men and few prospects.
On August 4th, 1942, the United States and Mexico initiated what’s known as the Bracero Program which spanned two decades and was the largest guest worker program in U.S. history.
The concept was simple. Vetted braceros (Mexican slang for field hand) legally worked American farms for a season. It was intended to be only a wartime labor scheme, but between 1942 and 1964, an estimated two million workers fulfilled 4.6 million contracts—influencing immigration and labor rights in the process.
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Their legacy still resonates today. “Through the H2-A visa program Mexican immigrants continue to provide essential labor,” says Mireya Loza, Curator in the Division of Work and Industry at the National Museum of American History and award-winning author of Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom. “They still pick the produce that makes its way onto our tables and in many ways like the braceros that came before them, they feed America. Our lives are intimately tied to their labor.”
Mexican laborers applied at government processing centers. Those who passed competency and health exams traveled to the border where American agents conducted secondary screenings, DDT fumigation, and invasive medical checks. Testimonials compiled by the Bracero History Archive speak of being picked out of line-ups, packed into trucks and freight trains, and shipped off to the fields.
Farm work is universally hard but living conditions were defined by individual growers. The Mexican government insisted on basic worker protections because of past abuses. #laborday

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