"Mexican Americans and World War II" Topic
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| Tango01 | 02 Sep 2016 9:40 p.m. PST |
"World War II had an enormous impact on Latinos in the United States, including Mexican Americans. Mexican Americans were drafted into or volunteered for the U.S. armed services, where they had the highest percentage of Congressional Medal of Honor winners of any minority in the United States. The war also fueled Latino migration to the United States. As defense industries grew and many workers went off to war, industries experienced acute labor shortages. Women and African Americans entered industry in large numbers to help address these shortages, and temporary workers from Puerto Rico and Mexico, or braceros, were through the Bracero Program, a 1942 labor agreement between the United States and Mexico. Although the Bracero Program brought Mexicans to the United States to work primarily in agriculture, some workers were also employed in various industries. Over 100,000 contracts were signed between 1943 and 1945 to recruit and transport Mexican workers to the United States for employment on the railroads. By early 1945, the bracero population in the Philadelphia area numbered approximately 1,000, most of whom worked on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Living in substandard conditions in "box car camps," the laborers had little contact with the general population and limited access to healthcare, recreation, translators, or legal aid…"
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| whitphoto | 03 Sep 2016 4:37 a.m. PST |
Puerto Rico is part of the US, that's like saying people from Ohio and Mexico were brought to the US as workers… |
 Legion 4   | 04 Sep 2016 3:02 p.m. PST |
Yes like Gaum, not a state but close … I mean Puerto Rico … not Ohio !  |
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