This timeline accompanies Dr. Brandon Morgan's presentation on the history leading up to the Bracero Program. ;xNLx;;xNLx;Access the timeline at tiny.cc/BeforeBracero;xNLx;;xNLx;Contact Brandon Morgan at bmorgan19@cnm.edu or @CNMBrandon
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo transferred half of Mexico's national territory to the United States along with 100,000 people
The Mexican Revolution ousted the aging dictator, Porfirio Díaz, and ushered in a decade of civil war
Taken captive by Pancho Villa and accompanied villistas during the raid on Columbus, NM
All restrictions lifted on Mexican migration to facilitate their work in agriculture
Restrictionist legislation that imposed quotas on immigration based on a person's nation of origin
Between 1929 and mid-1931 an estimated 200,000 Mexicans and Mexican-Americans "voluntarily" left the US for Mexico. For the entire decade of the 1930s, the estimates are closer to 1 million.
As reported in the Nation in July 1936, Pallares was deported as an "undesirable alien" for his labor organization work in New Mexico
Governor Edwin Johnson declared martial law and refused to allow New Mexicans, or any other Hispanics, to enter Colorado
Carabajo lived most of his life in NM; he was surprised to learn in 1937 that he wasn't a US citizen
Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas issued an order that nationalized oil assets across the nation
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor drew the US to join the Allies in WWII
In hopes of creating a bilateral agreement to protect the rights of Mexican laborers in the US during WWII, representatives of both governments created an executive agreement: EAS 278
In the face of controversy and reports of discrimination and abuse, Congress allowed the Bracero Program to expire in mid-1964
The Immigration and Nationality Act ended national-origins quotas and expanded immigration to the United States
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