Editing Bracero Program (section)

==== Wage discrepancies ====
The U.S. and Mexico made an agreement to garnish bracero wages, save them for the contracted worker (agriculture or railroad), and put them into bank accounts in Mexico for when the bracero returned to their home. Like many, braceros who returned home did not receive those wages. Many never had access to a bank account at all. It is estimated that the money the U.S. "transferred" was about $32 million.<ref name="OSORIO 2005 95–103">{{Cite journal |last=Osorio |first=Jennifer |date=2005 |title=Proof of a Life Lived: The Plight of the Braceros and What It Says About How We Treat Records |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41102104 |journal=Archival Issues |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=95–103 |issn=1067-4993 |jstor=41102104}}</ref> Often braceros would have to take legal action in attempts to recover their garnished wages. According to bank records money transferred often came up missing or never went into a Mexican banking system. In addition to the money transfers being missing or inaccessible by many braceros, missing wage payments existed up and down the railroads, as well as in all the country's farms.