Bracero Program
Alexis France 3/16/16
Bracero program
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Immigrants that were already in the united states worried about the braceros taking their jobs and lower the wages. Employers are suppose to hire the braceros for domestic labor shortage but many ignored this rule many benefited by cheap labor. Farm wages dropped and labors who lacked full rights in American society.
5 Facts on the Bracero Program
August 4, 1942
April 29,1943
Minimum wage (30 cents)
The Mexican Labor Agreement guaranteed a minimum wage of 30 cents per hour for working on the farmland and they would also get "human treatment" if you were a worker.
The Bracero Program ended in 1964
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Operation wetback in 1954
In the Operation wetback that happened in 1954 in the united states after most of their contracts had ended there where immigration and naturalization service that began the operation wetback, where their children which are Mexican braceros born in the U.S .were wrongly repatriated with their parents.