A photo exhibit of Mexican guest workers in the United States from 1942-1964, laborers known as braceros or "those who work with their arms." The Bracero Program is the primary origin of the ...

Manuel Alvarado was part of the Bracero Program in the 1960s, which allowed millions of Mexican men to work legally in the United States on short-term labor contracts. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles ...

SALINAS – Two Monterey County Supervisors will be conducting a special honoring of living Monterey County Bracero workers in the first Bracero History Recognition Week during a ceremony this month.

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Crouching for up to 10 hours between the furrows of a Nebraska field, Fausto Ríos, 17, could trim and separate 70 beets in a single minute with a small hoe. But he paid a steep price. Under the ...

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SALINAS – Two Monterey County Supervisors will be conducting a special honoring of living Monterey County Bracero workers in the first Bracero History Recognition Week during a ceremony this month.

One May morning in 1961, 21-year-old Manuel Alvarado strapped on his huaraches, stuffed three changes of clothes and a thin blanket into a nylon tote bag and bid his parents farewell. He was leaving ...

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas, has proposed a bill to streamline farmworker visas for migrants that harkens back to the Bracero Program of the 1940s. If ...