A new statue at the Los Angeles Migrant’s Bend Plaza honors the legacy of millions of Mexican farmworkers brought to the US under the Bracero program. - NBCLatino
"It immediately struck a chord with me," said Loza, 79, who participated in the program during the early 1960s."It was an unforgettable experience," he told NBC News in his native Spanish.Though the program marked a crucial moment in the nation's immigrant and labor history, many Americans are not familiar with the history of the largest guest worker program in the Americas. The program,to Mexican workers, lasted 22 years, from 1942 to 1964.
For many Mexican Americans who can tie their heritage to the braceros, this history is a point of pride because"many of us can say that our family contributed to this country" and it"challenges the narrative that we came here without being wanted," Mireya Loza, a Bracero Program scholar and Juan Loza's niece, told NBC News.
"I didn't only help me and my family, but I helped this country when they were in need," Juan Loza said."Thanks to God, this country received me with open arms — even if the current political narrative tries to ridicule us and tries to say the opposite, which we all know is a lie." Artist Dan Medina's bracero statue portrays a man holding a hoe, a field work tool known as “el cortito.” Standing next to him is his wife holding their son, who is shown clutching a toy Ford truck in one arm while reaching for his father with the other. To their right lies a pile of workers’ tools and other symbols depicting the work of these Mexican migrants.
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