Example sentences for: braceros

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

  • Many Chicanos of the Southwest and Midwest are descendants of braceros who came to the United States and stayed, never returning to Mexico.

  • It continued even after the war, and between 1955 and 1959 over 480,000 braceros were still working in the United States.

  • It is estimated that by 1947 nearly 220,000 braceros had worked in the United States under this program.

  • 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).

  • 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.


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