How to Use bracero in a Sentence

bracero

noun
  • The old bracero says his heart wants to go on for many years to come.
    — Selene Rivera, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
  • Oak View is very different from when his father arrived in the 1950s to work as a bracero.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • His uncle had been a bracero who worked the fields, and as a child, Chacon recalls seeing farmworkers being bused to work.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2023
  • The family left Michoacan to work in the vineyards under the bracero program.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The 85-year-old first came to the United States as a bracero working in California's tomato fields decades ago.
    — Jaqueline Hurtado and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Ornelas, also the grandson of a bracero, moved to Salinas as an undocumented immigrant at age 4.
    — Nick Lozito, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Nov. 2021
  • The Spanish word bracero roughly translates to someone who works with their arms, but the earlier guest worker program didn’t have the same inclusive meaning Chandler intends.
    — Doug Sackman, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Back then, Mexican workers would come across the Rio Grande River under temporary work permits granted under the bracero program.
    — T. Christian Miller, Propublica, Kiah Collier and Julian Aguilar, star-telegram, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Growing up in Stockton, where a high concentration of braceros tended fields, Huerta said witnessing the workers’ subpar conditions drove her early activism.
    — Isa Farfan, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Her mother once fainted at a Del Monte cannery when denied water during a hot shift; her father suffered dehydration several times as a farmworker under the bracero program.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
  • In 2014, Ornelas invited the Silvas and nine other bracero families to a Stanford celebration.
    — Nick Lozito, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Among the original braceros who arrived in the 1940s was the grandfather of one of the show’s advisory council members, Martha Escutia, an attorney and former state senator who represented parts of Southeast Los Angeles.
    — Isa Farfan, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026

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