Editing Bracero Program (section)

== Program Expansion and Continuation ==
The agreement was extended with the Migrant Labor Agreement of 1951 ({{uspl|82|78}}), enacted as an amendment to the [[Agricultural Act of 1949]] by the [[United States Congress]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=1951-07-12 |title=Text - S.984 - 82nd Congress (1951-1952): An Act to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/82nd-congress/senate-bill/984/text |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=www.congress.gov}}</ref> which set the official parameters for the Bracero Program until its termination in 1964.<ref name="Calavita-1992">{{Cite book |title = Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration, and the I. N. S. |last = Calavita |first = Kitty |publisher = Quid Pro, LLC |year = 1992 |isbn = 0-9827504-8-X |location = New York |page = 1 }}</ref>

In studies published in 2018 and 2023, it was found that the Bracero Program did not have an adverse effect on the wages or employment for American-born farm workers,<ref name="Clemens-2018">{{Cite journal |last1=Clemens |first1=Michael A. |last2=Lewis |first2=Ethan G. |last3=Postel |first3=Hannah M. |date=June 2018 |title=Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion |journal=American Economic Review |language=en |volume=108 |issue=6 |pages=1468–1487 |doi=10.1257/aer.20170765 |issn=0002-8282 |pmc=6040835 |pmid=30008480 |quote=We find that bracero exclusion failed to raise wages or substantially raise employment for domestic workers in the sector.}}</ref> and that termination of the program had adverse impact on American-born farmers and resulted in increased farm mechanization.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=San |first=Shmuel |date=2023 |title=Labor Supply and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Termination of the Bracero Program in 1964 |url=https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20200664 |journal=American Economic Journal: Applied Economics |language=en |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=136–163 |doi=10.1257/app.20200664 |issn=1945-7782|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Since abolition of the Bracero Program, temporary agricultural workers have been admitted with H-2 and [[H-2A visa]]s.