From 1942-1964 nearly 6 million Mexican farm workers came to work in the fields of the US under the Bracero program. These immigrants are, in many ways, the foundation of today's lively Latino community. This program examines what happened to these men who left their homeland to chase a dream across the border, and how they changed the face of America. The program was initially prompted by a demand for manual labor during World War II, and begun with the US government bringing in a few hundred experienced Mexican agricultural laborers to harvest sugar beets in the Stockton, California area. The program soon spread to cover most of the United States and provided workers for the agriculture labor market (with the notable exception was Texas, who initially opted out of the program in preference of an "open border" policy, and were denied braceros by the Mexican government until 1947 due to perceived mistreatment of Mexican laborers. As an important corollary, the railroad bracero program was independently negotiated to supply US railroads initially with unskilled workers for track maintenance but eventually to cover other unskilled and skilled labor. By 1945, the quota for the agricultural program was more than 75000 braceros working in the US railroad system and 50000 braceros working in US agriculture at any one time
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