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- while americans fought in world war ii, it was mexicans who helped build the midwest. the bracero program recruited them to work on american farms and factories across the united states. but just as quickly as they got here, americans wanted them out. ever heard of operation wetback? well, get this. once the war was over, president eisenhower's administration had the immigration and naturalization services deport hundreds of thousands of hardworking mexicans and even mexican american citizens who had the right to be here. they used military-style tactics to rapidly locate, process, and depor...

All: sí, señor! - bravo, bravo. amazing. you guys killed it. chuy, what a welcome. i don't deserve it. - [laughs] yes, you do. welcome to little village, la villita, and jardín esperanza. - the garden of hope. - yes. - absolutely. - there used to be a house here. it burned in a fire. there were efforts to make it a parking lot. we said, "oh, no, it can't be a parking lot. we need green space to instill hope in this community." - they don't understand how important green spaces are for mental health. - yeah. this neighborhood represents home for so many people. it represents family. it repre...

Crucial to the family business’ growth was adapting to change — whether strategically, agriculturally or personally striving for better, Reynaldo Robledo Sr. said.

Hidden within the historical accounts of minorities, workers and immigrants in American society is the story of the millions of Mexico's men and women who experienced the temporary contract worker program known as the Bracero Program. Established to replace an alleged wartime labor shortage, research reveals that the Program intended to undermine farm worker unionization. Harvest shows how several million men, in one of the largest state managed migrations in history, were imported from 1942 to 1964 to work as cheap, controlled and disposable workers. The documentary features the men and ...

The heralded filmmaker and photographer from Jalisco divides his time, and his heart, between his native Mexico and his adopted California.