The Bracero Program was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated by an August 1942 exchange of diplomatic notes between the United States

United States

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 and Mexico

Mexico

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, for the importation of temporary contract laborers from Mexico to the United States.

American president Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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 met with Mexican president Manuel Ávila Camacho

Manuel Ávila Camacho

Manuel Ávila Camacho served as the President of Mexico from 1940 to 1946.Manuel Ávila was born in the city of Teziutlán, a small town in Puebla, to middle-class parents, Manuel Ávila Castillo and Eufrosina Camacho Bello. He had several siblings, among them sister María Jovita Ávila Camacho and...

 in Monterey to discuss Mexico as part of the Allies in World War II

World War II

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 and the Bracero Program.