Editing Bracero Program (section)

== In popular culture ==

* [[Woody Guthrie]]'s poem "[[Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)]]", set to music by Martin Hoffman, commemorates the deaths of 28 ''braceros'' being repatriated to Mexico in January 1948. The song has been recorded by dozens of folk artists.
* Protest singer [[Phil Ochs]]'s song "Bracero" focuses on the exploitation of the Mexican workers in the program.
* A minor character in the 1948 Mexican film ''[[Nosotros los Pobres]]'' wants to become a ''bracero.''
* The 1949 film ''[[Border Incident]]'' explores two federal agents' efforts to end an illegal ''bracero-''smuggling operation.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Auerbach |first=Jonathan |date=2008 |title=Noir Citizenship: Anthony Mann's "Border Incident" |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20484414 |journal=Cinema Journal |volume=47 |issue=4 |pages=102–120 |doi=10.1353/cj.0.0021 |jstor=20484414 |s2cid=144835225 |issn=0009-7101|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* Famed satirist [[Tom Lehrer]] wrote the song "George Murphy" about [[United States Senator|Senator]] [[George Murphy]] in response to an [[George Murphy#Career|infamous racist gaffe]] referring to Mexican labor, which included the lines "Should Americans pick crops? George says "No" / 'Cause no-one but a Mexican would stoop so low / And after all, even in Egypt, the pharaohs / Had to import Hebrew braceros".<ref>{{Cite web |last=tomlehrer |title=George Murphy (incl. The George Murphy Campaign Song and addenda) |url=https://tomlehrersongs.com/george-murphy/ |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=Tom Lehrer Songs |language=en-US}}</ref>
* The 2010 documentary ''Harvest of Loneliness'' describes the history of the bracero program. It includes interviews with several former braceros and family members, and with labor historian Henry Anderson.
* ''A Convenient Truth'' (2014) urges viewers not to let their governments repeat "the follies" of the Braceros program, during the end credits.
* In 1953, [[Pedro Infante]] recorded ''Canto del Bracero'' under Peerlees label.