The big payback.Mexico Mexico, city, Mexico Mexico or Mexico City, Span. Ciudad de México (Méjico), city (1990 pop. 8,236,960; 1991 met. area est. 20,899,000), central Mexico, capital and largest city of Mexico. is finally getting around to paying back the money owed to thousands of its people who took part in the Bracero Program The Bracero Program, (after the Spanish word for 'unskilled laborer'), was a temporary contract labor program initiated by an August 1942 exchange of diplomatic notes between the United States and Mexico. , a temporary worker agreement the country had with the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. between 1942 and 1967. While these migrants worked in agriculture and on the railroads rail·road n. 1. A road composed of parallel steel rails supported by ties and providing a track for locomotive-drawn trains or other wheeled vehicles. 2. , ten percent of their income was withheld by the U.S. government. An estimated $20 million was sent to Mexico but never reached most people. About 80,000 workers have registered to receive a check--some of these braceros have been owed back wages for more than 60 years. |
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