Mexico’s “braceros” revive campaign to secure pension payments
Tagged: Mexico, mexico cityPosted on: January 7th, 2007“Mexican laborers who worked in Texas, California and other agricultural states from 1942 to 1964 will embark this week on another letter-writing campaign to lobby the Mexican government for reimbursements.
The men – former members of the “bracero” guest worker program – say Mexico’s federal government deducted 10 percent of their earnings, ostensibly putting the money in a pension fund in Mexico City. Now that the workers are retired, they want the payments – even if they’ve emigrated to the United States.”
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