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Keeping the New York State Home Front Going: Mexican Braceros in World War II
Document 7
Vocabulary
Prohibiting: Forbidding, outlawing.
Mandatory: Not optional, not leaving to choice
Excerpt from Buffalo Courier Express article, February 17, 1946. Courtesy of Erie County Public Library.
Document 7 Short-Answer Questions
- According to the railroad executive quoted in the article, what was the feeling about the job that the braceros had done?
- Why was the government returning the braceros to Mexico at the end of the war instead of renewing their contracts?
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