Guest workers and beyond: The Bracero Program
Braceros dig potatoes near Moses Lake in 1945. The Bracero Program brought thousands of workers from Mexico to fill the labor shortage caused by World War II.
COURTESY PHOTO/MOSES LAKE MUSEUM & ART CENTER
The Bracero Program was an agreement with Mexico, originally crafted during World War II to ease labor shortages in the United States. The program outlasted the war and from 1942 to 1962 guest workers were brought from Mexico to work in the agriculture and railroad industries.
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