USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -An executive order called the Mexican Farm Labor Program established the Bracero Program in 1942. This series of diplomatic accords between Mexico and the United States permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the United States on short-term labor contracts.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Bracero Program grew out of a series of bi-lateral agreements between Mexico and the United States that allowed millions of Mexican men to come to the United States to work on, short-term, primarily agricultural labor contracts.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1942, the U.S. and Mexican governments agreed to recruit more than 300, 000 Mexicans to work low-paying agricultural jobs in the United States, many of which had been left empty as Americans went off to war or took on more highly skilled positions in armaments factories.

Detailed explanation-4: -Beginning in World War II, the Bracero Program brought Mexican laborers to the United States to remedy wartime production shortages.

Detailed explanation-5: -Under the 1942-64 Bracero programs, between 1.5 million and two million Mexicans gained experience working legally in US agriculture, and at least 100, 000 became legal immigrants when their employers sponsored them for immigrant visas in the late 1960s.