Seventy-one years after the Eisenhower administration launched a high-visibility operation to arrest undocumented immigrants, ...
Decades ago, Yolo County eagerly welcomed thousands of Mexican nationals across the border. The temporary workers, known as braceros, came under a 1942 agreement between the U.S. and Mexican ...
The Tafoya market is believed to have been the first Mexican-owned market in Yolo County and contracted bracero workers. "Without these people, we wouldn't have been able to live here, be educated.
You state, “the vast majority of ‘undocumented’ individuals are productive, not dangerous.” How do you know that? Allegedly ...
Seventy-seven years ago, a chartered Douglas DC-3 aircraft left Oakland with 28 Mexican nationals being sent back to México. Most were “braceros,” the slang term for Mexican laborers once imported to ...
This is not the first time the nation has experienced a mass deportation movement, and past experiences provide insight into ...
in Chicago included a photo of Mexican workers, or braceros, who had been stranded in Chicago. (Chicago Tribune) Business owners discovered they could pay hired hands even less than what was ...
Fresno Bee Opinion Editor Juan Esparza Loera connects the 1948 plane crash that killed 28 Mexican nationals being deported to today’s deportation efforts.
Seventy-seven years ago, a chartered Douglas DC-3 aircraft left Oakland with 28 Mexican nationals being sent back to México. Most were “braceros,” the slang term for Mexican laborers once ...