can someone help me wat are braceros i know they have to do with world war 2 but i dont know wat they are and

Question

where can i find out

Answer 1

A quick Googling found all sorts of references, but this one is one of the best: http://www.farmworkers.org/bracerop.html

Answer 2

The Bracero Program was originally a bi national 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.


* This is very interesting because here in California, day-laborers (generally Mexican immigrants) who offer themselves for work and stand in front of places like Home Depot and U-Haul are also called "braceros"

Answer 3

They were Mexocan nationals that were let into the US to work the fields. The deal was, you work the fields for the picking seasons, then go home. Some honored the deal, but a lot of them did not!