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To: SatinDoll
The bracero program was killed by President Kennedy in 1963. This was the result of an Edward R. Murrow documentary on CBS called "Harvest of Shame" in 1958 which exposed the conditions of migrant guest workers and galvanized opposition to the program.
72 posted on 07/30/2011 8:50:17 PM PDT by Publius
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To: Publius

Thank you for correcting my horrible Spanish spelling, truly!

I mentioned in one of my posts that the conditions under which migrant workers in the past toiled were cruel. They weren’t paid very much back then, and they’re not paid very much today.

Back in the late 1960s, I met a family from Mexico working on truck farms who knew how to work “the system”. The grandparents took care of the small children while dad, mom, and the oldest son (who had graduated from an American high school) worked in the fields. All their children were expected to attend American schools and graduate eventually.

Their money increased 9-fold whenever they went home to their small ranchero in Mexico. The family intended to work until the youngest graduated from high school, then they would return to Mexico permanently.


75 posted on 07/30/2011 9:03:28 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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