Word: bracero
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Besides casting serious doubts on this country's integrity and willingness to use illegal immigrants without granting them basic civil rights, the bill ignores precedent. A similar project, the Bracero program which ended in 1965 actually spurred immigration because "the guests" brought along their families and overstayed their welcome. Here again, the Simpson-Mazzoli package, in trying to satisfy every interest group, neglected to consider what the real world response from employers and workers...
...Bracero: Mexican citizen brought into the U.S. temporarily and usually in groups to add to the existing labor force at times of peak activity. The program, begun during World War II to relieve manpower shortages, was ended-over farmers' protests-in 1964. However, individuals known as "green-carders" (for the permits they hold) can work as aliens...
...Never have I been so disgusted by bureaucratic meddling in a state problem as I was with the bracero ban [June 4]. Congressmen sitting 3,000 miles away in Washington take it upon themselves to arbitrarily outlaw braceros. To state unemployment as an argument is absurd. How many of the 440,000 unemployed Californians would stoop to do farm work even at the union wage...
This arrangement irritated American la bor unions, which pointed to domestic jobless rolls, and Congress allowed the permissive bracero law to lapse at the end of last year...
...emphatically deny ever making derogatory comments about bracero Mexican laborers as to their physical abilities or characteristics. I have never said, "Americans can't do that kind of work. It's too hard." I have said that Americans won't do that kind of work, and the experience of California farmers is the basis of that statement. I also bitterly resent your unfair reference to a fine volunteer worker, Mrs. Tucker...