bracero program

Ricardo "Papu" Ovilla, left, and the family's first car. Ovilla is pictured with his children Martha (next to him) and Aurelia and Rodolfo Sandoval (left to right, inside the car) in a photo taken in 1949 at a labor camp in Escondido, Calif.

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Remembering Grandfather 'Papu,' A Former Bracero Worker With 'A Twinkle In His Eye'

5:02am August 21, 2020

by Abe Selby

Two cousins remember their grandfather, who came to the U.S. from Mexico during World War II and often masked his experiences with discrimination with humor.

San Diego high school students await a bus ride to Blythe, Calif., to go pick cantaloupes in the summer of 1965. They were recruited as part of the A-TEAM, a government program to replace migrant farm workers with high school students.

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When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers

10:41am August 23, 2018

by Gustavo Arellano

In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.