California Politics HuddleCPH Daily Bulletin 10/10/2025
ARELLANO: Former #bracero doesn’t want the program to return. ‘People will be treated like slaves’
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-10/bracero-program-donald-trump
Peter Riley“It’s all just a little bit of history repeating” - Shirley Bassey
“Operation Wetback” 1954: a federal program to hunt down & deport “undocumented immigrants” from Mexico. Somewhere between 1.1 and 1.5 million were rounded up & deported…. yet, many were documented migrants or US citizens.
Led By Gilded Fools"There have been two 'Mass Deportations' of Mexicans and US citizens of Mexican descent that have happened before in the United States. You don’t know about it because this history isn’t taught."
"Scholars estimate that more than half of those pushed out of the country were American citizens, often the U.S. born children of immigrants.”
"That would mean nearly a million or more U.S. citizens were deported to a country that was not theirs. These were U.S. citizens endowed with all of the rights guaranteed to citizens of this country right?
Are you ready to defend your neighbors? If not, history will repeat itself if we allow it.
https://greattransformation.substack.com/p/mass-deportations-a-dark-history
Bracero - Phil Ochs (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U442h3Xj2qo
Bracero
The last Internationale 2017
The Last Internationale - DEPORTEE ( Woody Guthire )
Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
The radio says, “They are just deportees”
song about the deaths of 28 migrant farm workers in a plane crash in 1948. The workers were part of the U.S.-Mexico “Bracero” program, whereby Mexican farm workers could come to the U.S to work…
Woody Guthrie wrote the lyrics as a poem; the melody was written a decade later by Martin Hoffman, a schoolteacher
MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History August 4, 1942: U.S. and Mexico began the Bracero Program to provide cheap Mexican labor to replace U.S. workers who were being sent to fight in World War II, and to replace the 500,000 Mexican workers who were deported during the Great Depression in order to mollify xenophobic demands for “white jobs.” The Bracero program also gave farm-owners an alternative to hiring Anglo farm workers who hadn’t been drafted, many of whom were affiliated with the radical IWW. The Bracero program promised decent and sanitary housing and a minimum wage, but these were generally ignored by employers. Additionally, the workers were often subjected to racist attacks. The abuses contributed to the development of the Chicano Movement, the United Farm Workers and other forms of activism.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #bracero #chicano #ufw #union #unitedfarmworkers #racism #xenophobia #ww2 #IWW #minimumwage
Today in Labor History August 4, 1942: U.S. and Mexico began the Bracero Program to provide cheap Mexican labor to replace U.S. workers who were being sent to fight in World War II, and to replace the 500,000 Mexican workers who were deported during the Great Depression in order to mollify xenophobic demands for “white jobs.” The Bracero program also gave farm-owners an alternative to hiring Anglo farm workers who hadn’t been drafted, many of whom were affiliated with the radical IWW. The Bracero program promised decent and sanitary housing and a minimum wage, but these were generally ignored by employers. Additionally, the workers were often subjected to racist attacks. The abuses contributed to the development of the Chicano Movement, the United Farm Workers and other forms of activism.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #bracero #chicano #ufw #union #UnitedFarmWorkers #racism #xenophobia #ww2 #IWW #MinimumWage
