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A Day in History

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Mexican “braceros.” Up to 5 million workers entered the U.S. as legal seasonal workers 1942-1964. Photo credit: Oregon State University

Detainees awaiting deportation in El Centro, California, 1954. Photo credit: Larry Sharky, Los Angeles Times

Detainees boarding buses to be returned Mexico. Photo credit: Texas AFL-CIO, Mexican-American Affairs Committee Records, University of Texas at Arlington Special Collections

In early 1950’s, the Eisenhower Administration cracked down on Mexicans ...

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