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  • Bracero Program
    Bracero Program

    …labourers from Mexico, known as braceros, to work legally in the United States. The program ran from 1942 to 1964, and during that time more than 4.5 million Mexicans arrived in the United States, most going to work in Texas and California, either in agriculture or on the railroads.

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    …labourers from Mexico, known as braceros, to work legally in the United States. The program ran from 1942 to 1964, and during that time more than 4.5 million Mexicans arrived in the United States, most going to work in Texas and California, either in agriculture or on the railroads.

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