EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — A little-known labor agreement between the United States and Mexico helped reshape communities across the country during some of the nation’s most turbulent years. The ...

HAPPENING TOMORROW IN CHUALAR. AN UNVEILING FOR A MURAL HONORING THE CONTRIBUTIONS AND SACRIFICES OF THE BRACERO WORKERS OF 1942 TO 1964. THE BRACERO PROGRAM BROUGHT AN ESTIMATED 5 MILLION WORKERS ...

To the editor: Texas Rep. Monica De La Cruz is to be congratulated for her introduction of the Bracero 2.0 Act (“Former bracero doesn’t want the program to return. ‘People will be treated like slaves, ...

One May morning in 1961, 21-year-old Manuel Alvarado strapped on his huaraches, stuffed three changes of clothes and a thin blanket into a nylon tote bag and bid his parents farewell. He was leaving ...

Manuel Alvarado was part of the Bracero Program in the 1960s, which allowed millions of Mexican men to work legally in the United States on short-term labor contracts. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles ...

Roy McNutt was 17 when he spent a summer picking pickles for America. “It was lousy,” he said. McNutt, now 77, joined thousands of high school teens harvesting cucumbers, melons, strawberries and ...

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas, has proposed a bill to streamline farmworker visas for migrants that harkens back to the Bracero Program of the 1940s. If ...