The Bracero Program was a series of agreements between the United States and Mexico that allowed Mexican agricultural workers to come to the United States on a temporary and legal basis to work in the agricultural industry. This program was initiated during World War II in 1942 to address labor shortages in the US agricultural sector. The program continued until 1964 and brought hundreds of thousands of Mexican workers to the United States to work in the fields. This program was controversial, with critics arguing that it exploited the Mexican workers and suppressed the wages of American agricultural workers.
