Decades Later, Ex-Guest Workers Get Payment
From Times Wire Reports
After decades of waiting and protesting, thousands of Mexicans who worked in the United States more than 40 years ago began to receive one-time pension payments of about $3,500.
The first 19 former guest workers, known as braceros, picked up their checks from Mexican government offices in Tijuana. Tens of thousands more, who worked in the United States between 1942 and 1964, largely in agriculture, will be paid over the next five years.
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