World War II Homefront Era: 1940s: Bracero Program Establishes New Migration Patterns
Click image to zoom in.Or view larger version. First Braceros. ca. 1942. Dorothea Lange, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.
A Mexican worker is seen arriving in the U.S. during the early days of the Bracero program in this 1942 photograph by preeminent California documentary photographer Dorothea Lange.