The Bracero History Archive is a project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Brown University, and The Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso. Funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The Bracero Program, which brought millions of Mexican guest workers to the United States, ended more than four decades ago. Current debates about immigration policy-including discussions about a new guest worker program-have put the program back in the news and made it all the more important to understand this chapter of American history. This cooperative project sought to record the recollections of those involved in the program.

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Submissions from 2005

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Interview no. 1093, Patricio Padilla Rubio

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Interview no. 1091, Hector Ponce

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Interview no. 1092, Saul Ponce

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Interview no. 1088, José Ramirez Delgado

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Interview no. 1116, Isidoro Ramírez

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Interview no. 1094, Manuel Ramirez

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Interview no. 1117, Vicente Ramírez

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Interview no. 1144, Juan Sanchez Abasta

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Interview no. 1096, Sebastian Saucedo

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Interview no. 1279, Tirso Yepes

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Interview no. 1109, Luis Zamudio

Submissions from 2003

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Interview no. 991, Isidro Abrego Alvarado

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Interview no. 992, Rosendo Alarcón Carrera

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Interview no. 993, Jesús Andrade Rodríguez

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Interview no. 1118, Rodolfo Aranda Morales

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Interview no. 994, José Ignacio Astorga Corral

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Interview No. 1551, John L. Augustine

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Interview no. 995, Ramón Ávila Hernández

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Interview no. 1047, Vicente Ayala Arizmendi

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Interview no. 962, Guadalupe Balderrama

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Interview no. 1334, Evangelina Basua

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Interview No. 1552, Celia Berton Castro

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Interview no. 996, José Guadalupe Blanco Ortega

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Interview No. 1553, Elias Bonilla

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Interview no. 963, Nicolás Carreón Vega

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Interview no. 964, Bárbaro Chacón Delgado

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Interview no. 1546, Reynaldo H. Chapa

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Interview no. 997, Antonio Chávez Betancourt

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Interview no. 1123, Ismael Chavira López

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Interview no. 1124, Samuel Chavira

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Interview no. 1554, Minerva Christine Ann Cheatum

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Interview No. 1585, Cecilia Concha Estela

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Interview no. 1048, Felipe Corona

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Interview no. 1121, Juan Cossio

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Interview no. 1134, José de la Luz Mares

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Interview No. 1657, Ismael Diaz de Leon

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Interview no. 965, Aurelio Delgado Moreno

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Interview no. 1065, Alberto de Loera

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Interview no. 1125, Eduardo De Santiago

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Interview no. 998, José Isabel Domínguez Hernández

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Interview no. 1122, Jose E. Chavarría

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Interview no. 1126, Manuel Enríquez Savignac

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Interview no. 999, Salvador Esparza Carreño

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Interview no. 967, Elías Espino

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Interview no. 968, Guadalupe Estrada Estrada

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Interview no. 969, Juan de Dios Estrada López

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Interview no. 1262, José Félix Prieto

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Interview no. 1127, Benito Fierro

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Interview no. 1000, Agustín Flores Contreras

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Interview no. 1049, Eleuterio Flores G.