Bracero Program Research Paper

In 1942 the Bracero Program encouraged many Mexicans to come to the United States. The US and Mexico created the program so that Mexicans can come to the United States to work. The Bracero Program was a very big deal for farmers because typically Mexicans would have to do that work since Americans refused to do so. Mexicans were paid poorly and they worked jobs that Americans rejected to do. According to Library of Congress “The number of legal migrants grew from around 20,000 migrants per year during the 1910s to about 50,000 – 100,000 migrants per year during the 1920s.”