My grandfather Jose Orozco Sanchez was born on June 6, 1911 in Santiago de Velasquez which is located in the southern Mexican State of Jalisco. His French family before him moved to Mexico in the late 1800’s from a small town in France hoping to find a brighter future as business owners of a small store. My grandfather married his childhood sweetheart Trinidad Alvarez in Arandas, Jalisco on July 6, 1932. My grandmother gave birth to seventeen children which included three sets of twins but unfortunately only eight lived to adulthood. The economy in Santiago de Velasquez was suffering poorly from the aftermath of the Great Depression. My grandfather had many mouths to feed and his farm was not selling enough produce to sustain his family. My grandfather left his family for America to participate as a Bracero worker. During the Second World War America faced a male worker shortage. The Bracero Program grew out of a series of bi-lateral agreements between Mexico and the United States that allowed millions of Mexican men to come to the United States to work on, short-term, primarily agricultural labor contracts. From 1942 to 1964, 4.6 million contracts were signed, with many individuals returning several times on different contracts, making it the largest U.S. contract labor program and which offered citizenship to Mexican workers if they would come and work in American factories, steel mills, and railroads. The Bracero Program was created by executive order in 1942 because many growers argued that World War II would bring labor shortages to low-paying agricultural jobs. On August 4, 1942 the United States concluded a temporary intergovernmental agreement for the use of Mexican agricultural labor on United States, and the influx of legal temporary Mexican workers. The Bracero Program was controversial in its time. Mexican nationals, desperate for work, were willing to