... position rather clear - Mexicans are valuable as a bottom of the ladder labor resource, but are a threat, and therefore should be eradicated from the country, even if it was necessary to stretch the law to do so, for they often hold well-regarded rankings of leadership. Operation Wetback was really ... conducted over a period of several years indicate that the Bracero program increased the number of illegal aliens in Texas and the rest of the country. Because of the low wages paid to legal, contracted braceros, many of them ditched their contracts to return home or to work somewhere ... ...

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