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home > fellows' stories > fall 1999 > mexico

Bracero Program

by Carrie Kahn, Fall 1999 IRP Fellow
Reprinted with permission of National Public Radio, WEEKEND EDITION

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Irapuato, Mexico January 16, 2000 -- From Irapuato in Mexico, Carrie Kahn reports on a group of elderly Mexicans who say the Mexican government swindled them out of money that was deducted from their wages while they worked as farm laborers under a World-War-II era labor program.

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