Example sentences for: bracero

How can you use “bracero” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The creation of the H-2A program was controversial, given the history of prior temporary agricultural programs such as the Bracero program.

  • The word bracero comes from the Spanish word brazo (arm), which is used, as English uses “hand,” to mean “laborer.”

  • In crafting the H-2A program, Congress was acutely aware of the vulnerability of temporary agricultural workers and of problems that had arisen under other such programs, particularly the Bracero Program.

  • This, some argue, gave employers the ability to require more from Bracero workers based on a threat or promise they would be sent back to Mexico.

  • The bracero experience has been written about in novels and depicted in numerous movies, and although the image presented is often a negative one, like other Chicano folk heroes the bracero has become an archetype of the culture.


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