Bracero revival could be stirring
Tagged: agriculture, borderPosted on: January 11th, 2007“Legislators restarted talks of immigration reform Wednesday with the reintroduction of a bill for a guest-worker program, leading some border farmers to rejoice and some workers advocates to worry about potential abuse.
The bill, S. 237, also known as AgJobs, would give a “blue card,” or temporary legal status, to up to 1.5 million undocumented immigrants to work in agriculture.
To Carlos Ma rentes, director of the Sin Fronteras farmworker center in El Paso, the plan conjured up the specter of the bracero program of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.”
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