A Mexican Farmer Worker in USA

Immigrants that Mexican migrant workers first interviewed in the United States would be called "Jess". Jess is from Guanajuato in southern Mexico. Jess, his five brothers and sisters, and his parents are farmers. They grow maize as the main crop. Jess 's family live in a brick house in Mexico' s three - bedroom. Their house has surprisingly water and electricity. He earns only 100 pesos ($ 10.00) a day. According to Jess, this alone is not enough. He said that ordinary Mexicans need at least 150 pesos a day to live alone, and people supporting their families need more than that.

California farmers paid significantly less salary than Mexican-American and Mexican-American workers than American-American workers, but Mexican and Mexican American workers There is a tendency for Americans to earn more than the Mexican civil war. By the 1920s, at least three quarters of California's 200,000 farm workers were Mexican or Mexican Americans. Due to the rapid change in Mexican labor force, the first labor agreement was formed between the United States and Mexico. Mexico requires US farmers to provide legal contracts to ensure wage and working hours to all Mexican workers. In other words, the US government enforces the border between the United States and Mexico to check whether all Mexican and Mexican immigrants have proper labor contracts to prevent them being misused I will.

The Mexican government has remembered the discrimination and debt of the Bracero project in 1917-21 and the US government guarantees farmers to provide contracts to workers in Mexico and the farmers are in need of work from the recruitment site of the workers to the workplace I will pay the transportation fee. And Braceros' salary is the same as being paid to American farm workers. On September 29, 1942, the US Government agreed with "residents of birth and homeland in North America, South America and Central America, with the exception of the immigration law that wishes to engage in agricultural labor" I arrived at Stoke. In Dunton America. "

According to the temporary worker program of H-2 (change to H-2A 1986) used to import sugarcane in Florida importing workers in the Caribbean region and harvest apple in the northeast, California farmers want to hire Mexican workers. However, the Department of Labor requires Mexicans as H-2 workers, requiring paying the higher of the three wages to acquire qualifications: minimum, general or adverse wage rate (AEWR) , H-2 Limited employment of workers to a maximum of 120 people. California farmers trying to hire Mexican workers for 11 months a year will not be a problem if the eastern short season, but H-2 workers need US sector department from the US Department of Labor It is trying to prove that it is. Farmers failed in the Senate in 1965 and Vice President Hubert Humphrey voted decisively for producers.