Returns braceros? ‘Those People Should Be Hold as Slaves’

About 21-year-old Manuel Alvarado, Manuel Alvarade was arrested for three changes of clothes and a small robe in the Nylon Tote bag and closed his parents. He left their RANCHA Caña, Zacatecas for El Norte.

The United States was kind and cruel to his farming family. Her uncle was economically available fictional incentives of the yearly staff – known as braceros – allowed them to buy land and livestock back home.

His father, however, was 955 Mexican men during work, the Esenhower Management Policy for the removal of national security and return work opportunities to Americans.

“They sent my father at a border grass headbands on his back,” he told Spanish while sinking into his bed.

Father’s mistreatment was shocked by Alvarado back then. He boarded a train with his cousins ​​and arrested for Chihuaahua, where Mexico’s health official looked at everyone at the rental office to make sure they were working hard to work hard. Alvarados then invited the processing center near el paso. There, the American Health Inspectives clearly forced braceros who wish to mistreat her naked before blood tests, X-rays, final exams and its own bodies and ddt clothes.

The following came a bus trip at night to their last place: Tiny Swink, Colo. Alvarado sat there until November before returning home. In the following three summers, they serve as bracero.

“There is no remorse,” said Alvarado for those years.

He was wearing a generalist Mexican lines: a long flannel shirt, a blue shirt, jeans and sneakers and the pepper cell hanging on his beam. The good stetson was near when it was time to take his picture. Pictures of her grandchildren decorate the living room, along with a mickey mouse image in Skeleton’s mouse and glass cabin filled with membres.

Alvarado said: “We were very poor in Rancho.” If there was no rain, there would be no harvest and pure tribulation. The BraCuo program helped many people. “

Alvarado is a family friend. He knew my father, José Arllano, who grew up in the Ranchcho one Ranchcho and worked hard in Orange as a 1950 bracero, across the street. My Pepe was one of two million men who use the chances of the program that is basically economically of both homes and countries.

My father suggested that I talked to Alvarado after asking him and my uncle for my backup experience and agreed to know nothing. I sought a lot to hear the understanding of Alvarado at the time when the farmers begged Donald Trump to stop her Tsunami.

“We will not allow our farmers,” Tell TenBc in August, at the same time in the same discussion that you want to legalize it because “these people do it naturally,” and “people living in the interior city does that work.”

That’s why Texas Rep. Monica de La Cruz introduced Bracero, which opposed the first system – held in 1964 after supporting migratory workers – “created new opportunities for the Texas agriculture.”

When I told Alvarado about a possible revival, he stayed at the top of the head.

Ex-bracero replied: “If that happens, those people will be treated as slaves,” replied bracero. “Like you.”

In October 1963 a picture of Mexico workers in the Braacero program worked in Fresno County pepper fields.

(Bill Murphy / Los Angeles Times)

Although two months are about 86 shyels, Alvarado remembers those days of BraCuo as they happened last week. The amount was paid: 45 cents per hour in Colorado harvesting onions and milk. Fifty cents for all tomato boxes in Stockton next year. With tips tip in Dell City, Texas, where the farmer’s son has killed John F. Kennedy. The farmer then collected everyone around his truck to hear about the radio.

Fourty hours a day, seven days a week was a common practice. In the evening Saturday I was spent in a nearby city to buy entertainment and a few hours of entertainment – movies, dancing, drinking, drinking. Sometimes, farmers give a braceros for free food, which was needed by the agreement between the US government and Mexico government. Most of the time, they did not.

“At night, you couldn’t even get up again,” said Alvarado, beat me memory. Her uncle holds – “They can tell me, ‘now you know what El Norte So you know how to win money. Learn to love it. “”

But it is not all that happens.

In SWINK, Japanese administrators gave Alvarado and his relatives a private station, although the bandages are limited to accessing or boiling.Al Estilo Rancho. “The Hiraki family spoke to Mexican workers for imprisonment in the US government during World War II, to show that racialization could be overcome.

Alvarado continued: “The Americans were very kind,” Alvarado continued. That includes cross-boundary submission. “They went up to us in the field. ‘Hi, everyone. Let’s look at your papers.’ They always have highly respected. “

My father mocked. “No, I don’t believe that.”

Alvarado smiled my father. “SíLaboratory. Not as today.

He continues: “What I don’t like is Mexico’s superiors in California,” he continued. Perceive They are the ones who are here as slaves. They were always weeping – ‘¡Rash [Get to it]Wetbacks! ‘- and then use the worst names. “

As the years were traveling, the paperwork was legalized to work in the US as La Caña was too early, and only allowed three citizens into its citizens in the lottery year. The Japanese Americans has never sponsored Alvarado and, after crossing the war subscription. Wine Lotho in 1962, and bought somebody’s number for the following two years.

In 1965, Mala Caña’s men expect the annual arrival of Mexico officials to assign the Bracro Slots. But no one came.

Alvarado laughed. “This is when people start to come El Norte Another way. “

Dedicated Memorial in Braceros in Downtown Los Angeles.

(Cole Cole / Los Angeles Times)

And that is also what he does, to enter the world that is after a few years later to work in Pasadena restaurants before moving to Anaheim because of it. Jewel Diaspora. His wife and eight children finally followed. They were citizens after 1986 forgiveness, and Alvarado had talked about his previous bracero in his family – “So people come here to give their children to prepare for better things.”

All her children buy homes for blue income. His grandchildren receive degrees in college; Two of them serve in the war.

I asked him if the tourist planning program was successful today.

“It would not be good, and unrealistic,” said Alvarado. “Why don’t let people live in staying? They already worked. They talked about the awesome. And bringing people to enter the rights to happen.”

Some 2000s, braceros presented a court action case after finding that US holds 10% of earned money each year and gave money to Mexico. The Mexican government agreed to pay up to $ 3,800 for each former who was living in the US, but Alvarado did not apply.

He said: “The inexperienced or just too busy to be very worried,” he said. “Besides, I found my good health in my way. But it reminded me that when you signed that contract, you had no opportunity without any services that they gave you.”

Could Trump get America’s birth workers to do agricultural activity? Alvarado’s face is washed out.

“They couldn’t hire people here. They don’t want. I never seen white people work side in Mexico.

“They are looking for simple jobs,” my father made fun of.

“No, Lorzzo. They don’t want to suffer.”

The Word of Alvarado is a bit more and a tender. “You should not.”