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As part of the process of becoming a bracero identification pictures had to be taken from the men. This was part of the process at the Hidalgo Processing Center, Texas.

As part of the process of becoming a bracero identification pictures had to be taken from the men. This was part of the process at the Hidalgo Processing Center, Texas.

As part of the process of becoming a bracero identification pictures had to be taken from the men. This was part of the process at the Hidalgo Processing Center, Texas.

As part of the process of becoming a bracero identification pictures had to be taken from the men. This was part of the process at the Hidalgo Processing Center, Texas.

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Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Valentín Murillo was born in 1932, on a ranch in Michoacán, México; his parents worked on an ejido, and he had five siblings; he was formally educated through the third grade; as a young boy, he helped his…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Vance E. Beasley was born on March 11, 1916, in Heber Springs, Arkansas; in 1927, his family moved to Heth, Arkansas; he was the third eldest of his six siblings, four brothers and two sisters; with the…

Local vendors sold food and beverages as well as hats while the braceros had to wait either to enter the Monterrey Processing Center or to be processed inside.

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Venustiano Machado was born December 30, 1931, in Sinaloa, México; he had eight siblings, six sisters, all of whom were older, and two brothers; when he was six years old, his father died; shortly thereafter, he…