INTRODUCTIOn
Mexican-Americans during World War II faced a litany of ethnic tensions across the United States as well as in the military
The Bracero program, a worker’s visa program for agricultural workers to temporarily work in the American southwest, was in full effect. Contrary to former U.S. policies that sought to drive Mexicans back across the border during the 1920s and 1930s, the U.S. government recruited them to work in the agricultural sector in which they suffered in squalid working conditions.
Workers were hired on a one year contract that offered wages at a prevailing rate and depended on
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