Straddling the Border : Immigration Policy and the INS. 1st ed. ed., Austin, University of Texas Press, 2003. Available online. **Contains a copy of the Immigration Control and Reform Act of November 6, 1986.
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Foley, Neil. The White Scourge : Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture. Available online. |
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Geue, Ethel Hander. New Homes in a New Land: German Immigration to Texas, 1847-1861. Baltimore, Genealogical Pub, 1982. Available in PAC Ozuna Library, F395.G3 G39 1982. |
Mexican Labor and World War II: the Bracero Program
The Bracero Program brought Mexican laborers to the United States to remedy wartime production shortages. The program (which derived its name from the Spanish word for a manual laborer, “bracero”) continued until 1964, with braceros working mainly in agricultural areas in the Southwest and on the West Coast. Braceros worked long hours for low wages in difficult jobs that separated them from their families. In the United States, they also faced discrimination and became the subject of national labor debates. Get new insight into the Bracero Program and its workers through this collection of era photographs, documents, and oral history interviews. Time period : The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)