has anyone heard of the bracero program that US & Mexico started many yrs ago?

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just an insight to anti-illegal supporters.The program began as a way to address World War II-era labor shortages. US brought thousands of Mexicans to work in fields & as laborers to fill shortages across the nation. this issue has been ongoing for decades, it didn't happen overnight. BTW, the US was behind this one.

it just had a snowball effect, i guess.

Answer 1

Some of the answers, so far, have been very informative; however, no one has mention the real reason why the Bracero program was stopped. Most of the promises made to the workers were not kept. They were promised housing, transportation, food, FAIR wages and health care. Congress stopped it after the abuse was documented. The more things change the more they stay the same...it seems.

Answer 2

It is a relatively well-known piece of history for those who know US history, but the existence during the previous century of a program allowing for legal, temporary migration seems to have very little "insight" value for those who are concerned about this century's illegal and often permanent immigration. The controversy is not about whether people can come here from Mexico, it is about whether they do so in violation of US law and outside the controls of a program like the Bracero Program (which had its own problems, by the way). I'm not sure which side you're trying to score one against ("anti-illegal supporters" is not a very well formed phrase), but this fact on its own doesn't really prove much of anything to anyone. It's good you're reading history, though!

Answer 3

It is hardly the same situation now. There are no labor shortages. Just the opposite. American citizens are losing work because greedy employers prefer to hire illegals. Illegals increase the unemployment rate and drive wages down. As long as the business elite and their politician buddies are allowed to profit from this illegal labor, the problem won't be solved. But don't get your hopes up though. There are too many Americans sick of being screwed for amnesty to happen again. Many politicians would lose their jobs and ultimately that's all they really care about. I know you are proud of yourself with your ridiculous comparison, but I'm sorry to break it to you that it has no bearing on the social and political reality of our time.

Answer 4

Sweety you make a wonderful point.....We also trained and funded Afghanistan, look where that got us. We have no one to blame but ourselves, thank you for stating the obvious....

The Bracero Program


The Mexican migrant worker has been the foundation for the development of the rich American agricultural industry, and the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez border region has played a key role in this historic movement. One of the most significant contributions to the growth of the agricultural economy was the creation of theBracero Program in which more than 4 million Mexican farm laborers came to work the fields of this nation. The braceros converted the agricultural fields of America into the most productive in the planet.

Mexican peasants were hard-working, highly skilled agricultural laborers. Yet, despite the fact that two million peasants lost their lives in the Mexican Revolution of 1910, the government failed to provide them the resources needed to improve their lives. By the late thirties, when the crop fields began yielding insufficient harvest and employment became scarce, the peasant was forced to look for other means of survival.

The occurrence of this grave situation coincided with the emergence of a demand in manual labor in the U.S. brought about by World War II. On August 4, 1942, the U.S. and the Mexican government instituted the Bracero program. Thousands of impoverished Mexicans abandoned their rural communities and headed north to work as braceros.

The majority of the braceros were experienced farm laborers who came from places such as "la Comarca Lagunera," Coahuila, and other important agricultural regions of México. They stopped working their land and growing food for their families with the illusion that they would be able to earn a vast amount of money on the other side of the border.

Huge numbers of bracero candidates arrived by train to the northern border. Their arrival altered the social environment and economy of many border towns. Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, across from El Paso, Texas, became a historic recruitment site and substantial gathering point for the agricultural labor force.

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Yes when there was a labor shortage we ASKED, not really the same thing as criminals running across the border to TAKE an American job, America should recognize this invasion as an act of war by illegals who feel there problems outweigh laws, or the problems they create here.

Answer 6

I don't think you appreciate that the problem is the cumulative numbers. 12 to 20 million and the corresponding drain on education and other services is too much.

Yes, employers always want cheap labor and want to undermine the 'living wage' unions fought to achieve years ago. However, for workers and taxpayers who pay almost all of the cost of education and other services for poor people here even if they pay all taxes, this level of immigration of poor people is very bad policy. That is why there are laws against it.

Many countries don't allow poor people to immigrate at all. Our country allows some immigration of poor people, but limits it. No country wants to import poverty en masse.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Right, and as I recall it was stopped because unions were against the program - their claim was that the braceros were doing work that Americans should be doing.

Answer 9

They can only say illegal is illegal but they dont mention the fact that they exceeded the speed limit today.

Answer 10

What Yo! Said