When the labor market got tight during the war. with hundreds of thousands of young Americans entering the service. the agricultural growers pressured the Government to enter into an agreement with Mexico. a wartime emergency measure. in order to provide a continuing source of inexpensive labor. That agreement. which was signed in 1942. established the pattern governing the employment of nonimmigrant. temporary agricultural labor which persists today. Male workers were admitted. generally without their families. They were admitted temporarily. The work was hard and unattractive. There were some. generally minimal. governmental controls on wages and working conditiuas. and If the aliens displeased their employers. they could be deported. But unlike other special wartime programs. the bracero program persisted after the war. It persisted. especially with respect to crops which were unattractive to local workers.
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