Example sentences for: bracero

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

  • 19The Conference Report on IRCA noted in discussing the SAW program that "the Committeewas ever mindful of the reports of abuses that occurred during the old 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.

  • In the same way bracero commonly means a man who works with his hands, a laborer, and is used when speaking of all farm and agricultural workers.

  • Mexican workers recruited from Mexico under the Emergency Farm Labor Program known as the Bracero Program, which was in effect from 1942 to 1964.

  • Until only recently bracero was applied to any Mexican farmworker, and is often used interchangeably with words like “wetback” or “greaser.”


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