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Many Chicanos of the Southwest and Midwest are descendants of braceros who came to the United States and stayed, never returning to Mexico.
Many braceros chose not to return to Mexico when their contracts ended and -instead stayed and hid from la migra, the feared Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).
There was a shortage of farm laborers during World War II, and this program offered an answer to that problem, although some braceros also worked on the railroad.
Starting in the late 1940s and into the present, la migra made raids in the San Joaquin Valley of California, rounding up braceros who had overstayed their contract time allocation.
It continued even after the war, and between 1955 and 1959 over 480,000 braceros were still working in the United States.