This a Yahoo News Item. Interesting!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20060706/cm_csm/ydillin
2006-07-27 17:49:02 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
In case you didn't notice, Yahoo wrote the article, and not me.
I thought that you might enjoy reading a bit of history, that ISN"T repeating itself.
2006-07-28 10:15:11 · update #1
Imagine the hell that would break loose if Bush referred to Mexican immigrants as "wetbacks!" Oh my God.
2006-07-28 10:06:41 · answer #1 · answered by ShineOnYouCrazyDiamond 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have we thought about reinstituting the Bracero Program?
The Bracero Program was originally a binational temporary contract labor program initiated in August, 1942 by an exchange of diplomatic notes between the United States and Mexico after a series of negotiations.
The program was designed initially to bring a few hundred experienced Mexican agricultural laborers to harvest sugar beets in the Stockton, California area but soon spread to cover most of the United States to provide much needed farm workers to agriculture labor market.
As an important corollary, the railroad bracero program was independently negotiated to supply U.S. railroads initially with unskilled workers for track maintenance but eventually to cover other unskilled and skilled labor.
By 1945, the quota for the agricultural program was more than 50,000 braceros to be employed in U.S. agriculture at any one time, and for the railroad program 75,000.
2006-07-27 17:54:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a good thing you are not talking about humans... God forbid there are people on this planet that are so heartless...
sad very very sad...
2006-07-29 11:32:25 · answer #3 · answered by Odie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow!!
2006-07-27 17:53:33 · answer #4 · answered by laurabelle o 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋