(photo by Craig Sherod)
It was more than 50 years ago, when the 'Braceros' came to the U.S., wave after wave of laborers were brought to work the fields under worker's guest programs that lasted years at a time. Many of them worked in the U.S. from contract to contract until they became old. So, we ask: what is the meaning of 'temporary labor'? If working constantly for little money for fifty years far from your family and ending without social security here or back at home makes you a social burden, then something is wrong with the system, something is making human kind just irrational.