Editor's Pick Spotlight
The California Museum’s new exhibit explores how the state once recruited immigrant labor only to later enforce mass deportations, drawing parallels to current day immigration policies.
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New rules for immigrant and temporary farmworkers not only threaten to cut their wages, but also to make it more difficult for these workers t…
As a “guest” of the American government, my father—Salomón Huerta, Sr.—worked as a farmworker during the early 1960s under the Bracero Program. Officially known as the Mexican Farm Labor Program (1942-1964), this guest worker program recruited 4.6 million Mexican laborers to toil in America’s agricultural fields, along with the railroad and mining sectors.