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bracero::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | jack, laborer, labourer, manual laborer |
Examples of bracero
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Those were the opening years of what was known as the bracero program.
From the dallasnews.com
Crescencio Acevedo, 86, looks at pictures of his days as a bracero.
From the sacbee.com
Under the agreement, each bracero is eligible for about $3,500 from the Mexican government.
From the signonsandiego.com
Lopez wrote a song about the plight of the bracero that has become the anthem for the group.
From the fresnobee.com
But when the bracero scheme was ended in 1964, farmers replaced the migrants with machines.
From the economist.com
The couple came to Roseville from Mexico in 1943 under the bracero program, according to the city.
From the sacbee.com
Few Mexican Americans in California have no tie to a bracero.
From the sacbee.com
The bracero program is finally repealed in 1964.
From the ocregister.com
Martin Lopez worked as a bracero and was recognized with this certificate in 2001 by former Assembly Member Sarah Reyes.
From the fresnobee.com
- A Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II
- The Bracero Program (from the Spanish word brazo, meaning "arm") was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated by an August 1942 exchange of diplomatic notes between the United States and Mexico, for the importation of temporary contract laborers from Mexico to the United States. U. ...
- A Mexican national working as an agricultural laborer in the United States from 1942-1964, or similarly a railroad worker from 1942-1945; Of or pertaining to braceros, and especially the Bracero Program
- From the Spanish brazo, which translates as "arm", applies to the temporary agricultural and railroad workers brought into the United States as an emergency measure to meet the labor shortage of World War II. ...
- Hired hands, temporary immigrant workers
