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Alien Laborer's Identification card for Jesus Rivera Lopez.

Alien Laborer's Identification card for Jesus Rivera Lopez.

Non Resident Alien's Border Crossing Identification Card, for Jose Gamez

Alien Laborer's Permit and Identification card for Jesus Rosales Rios, 1960. Issued for work for the Yuma Producers Coop Association.

Alien Laborer's Permit and Identification Card interior, with rules written in Spanish, for Santos Nunez Sotelo, 1954.

Alien Laborer's Permit and Identification Card for Santos Nunez Sotelo, from 1954. Association identified as Lepanto Growers Association, Arkansas.

Alien Laborers Identification Card, back, for railroad track laborer Aaron Castañeda Gamez, identifying the Pennsylvania Railroad, as the contractor, 1944.

Alien Laborers Identification Card for Aaron Castañeda Gamez, 1944.

Alien Laboreres Identification card - back for Tomas Zapata Castaneda, 1957.

Alien Laborers Identification Card for Tomas Zapata Castaneda, 1957

Alien Laborers Identification Card for Jose Parra, 1956.

Alien Laborers Identification Card for Jose Parra,
1956.

Mica card or Alien Laborers Identification Card for Roberto Ordunio, 1956.

Alien Laborers Identification Card, or MICA, for Roberto Ordunio, 1956.

Back side of Alien Laborer's Identification Card issued in El Paso, TX, 1956.

Front side of Alien Laborer's Identification Card (MICA) with photo.

Roberto Silva Marín was born June 6, 1938, in Calvillo, Aguascalientes, México; he had six sisters and five brothers; his father was a campesino; the family moved to Jalpa, Zacatecas, México when he was eight years old; as a young boy, he helped his…

Isaura Covarrubias was the third born of her fourteen siblings; she grew up with ten sisters and two brothers, because two of her siblings, twins, died when they were young; her father worked in agriculture, but it was not enough to support the…

Alejo López Silva was born July 17, 1933, on a ranch in Calvillo, Aguascalientes, México; he was the fourth born of his ten siblings; his formal education extended through the third grade; as a young boy, he worked in the fields; when he was thirteen…

Margarita López was born April 15, 1934, in Calvillo, Aguascalientes, México; her parents were laborers, and she had six siblings; she was formally educated through the sixth grade; later, in 1950, she married Higinio López; she was fifteen years old…

José Álvarez Munguía was born December 5, 1946, in Jamay, Jalisco, México; he had seven siblings; his father was a bracero, and he completed roughly five contracts; José was formally educated through the fourth grade; he also worked in the fields;…

Arturo Berumen was born in 1962, in Zacatecas, México; he was the third born of his twelve siblings; his father, who was also named Arturo, was born in 1933; during the early 1950s, he enlisted in the bracero program; as a bracero, he labored in the…

Elsa Murillo Rodríguez was born September 10, 1954, in Zacatecas, México; she had six siblings, four of whom are still living; her father was a bracero until the early 1960s; he labored in the fields of Texas picking apples and oranges; several of…

Luis Estrada E. was born in 1953; he was the third born of his seven siblings; the year after he was born, his father, Miguel, enlisted in the bracero program; while he was gone, the family stayed in Michoacán, México; years later, Luis married and…