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The U.S. Government Tried Replacing Migrant Farmworkers with Teenagers (2018)
In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.
But farmers complained — in words that echo today's headlines — that Mexican laborers did the jobs that Americans didn't want to do, and that the end of the Bracero Program meant that crops would rot in the fields. The Courier of Waterloo, Iowa, for instance, ran a photo of beaming, bespectacled but scrawny boys boarding a bus for Salinas, where strawberries and asparagus awaited their smooth hands. Randy Carter Garden gloves that the farmers gave the students to help them harvest lasted onlyfour hours, because the cantaloupe's fine hairs made grabbing them feel like "picking up sandpaper."
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