bracero

How To Use bracero In A Sentence

• INA amendments in 1965 established a family reunification system, which enabled braceros to sponsor (or withhold or withdraw sponsorship of) immediate family members.
• Former braceros are suing the Mexican Government for billions of dollars.
• The braceros, from the Spanish word for arm, were agricultural workers sent by Mexico to the United States between 1940 and 1960.
• For them, sanctions have failed - they fear a new bracero program and don't have the resources to take advantage of one.
• While H - 1B workers are paid considerably more than the minimum wage, ‘it still is like the old bracero program,’ she asserts.
• This is the most fundamental expression of the growers' advantage in using braceros: a bracero knew he could not complain.
• In 1942, as World War II produced another labor shortage, an Executive Order initiated the bracero program which recruited four to five million Mexicans to work in the United States.
• Chavez later said he could never have organized the United Farm Workers until growers could no longer hire braceros during strikes.
• Federal agencies encouraged Mexican workers with the World War II bracero program, and then reinstituted mass deportations in the 1950s.
• Despite the end of the original bracero program, two guest-worker programs still exist in the United States, supplying skilled workers to the high-tech sector and farm laborers to agribusiness.