Santa Cruz County
Story 37: Braceros, Then and Now
July 9, 2018
The Bracero Program grew out of a series of bi-lateral agreements between Mexico and the United States allowing millions of Mexican men to come to the United States to work on short-term, primarily agricultural labor contracts. From 1942 to 1964, more than 4.5 million contracts were signed, with many individuals returning multiple times, making it…