Bracero Program

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CALEXICO, CA - FEBRUARY 02: A man on the Mexico side of the US/Mexico border fence stands near a cross on the US side which reads "Los Braceros", for the workers of the long-defunct Mexican guest worker Bracero Program. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

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More than 200 thousand mostly Mexican people work as seasonal workers in the U.S with a visa…

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Mexican migrant workers, employed under the Bracero Program to harvest crops on Californian farms, are shown picking chili peppers in this 1964 photograph. The Bracero Program, a labor agreement between the United States and Mexico, supplied Californian farms in 1964 with 100,000 Mexican laborers. Bracero stems from the Spanish word for arm, "brazo,'' and refers to the hard manual labor. (AP Photo)

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