On Jun 29, 10:03*pm, "Bill McKee" wrote:

Was the
Bracero Program (snip)
Was ended .because the do gooders said the migrant farm workers had to live
in demeaning conditions.

True. The White farmers of the Western Growers Association had become
spoiled from the availability of very cheap Mexican labor in the San
Joaquin valley
from 1850 until the Great Depression, when the US government and the
Mexican consulate cooperated to repatriate 500,000 Mexicans (who
weren't US citizens, even if they were born here) in order to open
jobs for real Americans.

Hundreds of thousands of American men became "fruit tramps," following
the harvests from Arizona to Washington state.

The federal camp at Weed, CA which was shown in the film version of
John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" originally was shacks for Mexican
agricultural workers.

Nowadays, Mexicans are often better off than White workers, they live
in better housing (while poor Whites are living in the shanties where
the Mexicans used to live), they dress better, and drive better cars.

It's surprising to drive past a grape vineyard being harvested and see
that the Mexican grape pickers are driving late model customized
pickup trucks with tinted windows and chromed wheels.

The local Mexicans dress better than Whites who've been driven
completely out of
agricultural work at any level by Mexican nepotism.

And bilingual Mexican-American labor contractors who round up Spanish-
only Mexicans to pick crops are living in custom built mansions on
five acre lots, across the street from the Whites who are living in
shacks....

Instead of making the farmers that supplied
housing, supply livable housing, they killed the program.

Well, one of the biggest agribusiness companies in Ventura County, CA
has built a modern housing development for Mexican ag workers in the
Santa Clara river valley so they don't have to commute from
Oxnard...