Workers from Mexico saved industry in 1940s

Posted on: September 22nd, 2006
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Bracero program led to claims of ‘legalized slavery’

“They left their nation and families to chase a rumor of economic boom in Oregon.

What they encountered were poor wages, harsh working conditions and widespread anti-Mexican sentiments.

Under the bracero program, a bilateral agreement between the United States and Mexico, farmhands from impoverished rural communities in Mexico were funneled into the state to help with farm-labor shortages”

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