Activist threatens 'siege' of Bush ranch

[kskiska]

Mexicans who toiled on U.S. farms between 1942 and 1964 under the Bracero program are ready to "besiege" U.S. President George W. Bush's ranch in Texas to press their demands for money owed them in their retirement, an activist who fought with Nicaragua's Sandinista rebels said Tuesday.

José Puente León told EFE that the former braceros are determined to march on Bush's ranch just as they did last year on the ranch owned by President Vicente Fox in Guanajuato.

"We're ready to besiege Bush's ranch in Crawford to press for the payment of the 9 billion pesos (US796.4 million) that the governments of Mexico and the United States owe the exbraceros," Puente León said.

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The Bracero program, created in response to a shortage of farm labor in the United States during World War II, allowed Mexicans to enter the country and work in the fields. Ten percent of the braceros' pay was withheld and deposited in savings accounts for return to the workers when they went back to Mexico.

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[LiberalVoice]

1. Good luck...

I imagine it will be much easier to storm Fox's ranch then it would be to "beseige" Bush's.

[Shakespeare]

2. This group has been horribly abused.

And what's saddest is that so few people know who the Braceros are. We need to pay them what they're owed--plus interest, and probably plus some sort of damages--and we need to do so NOW.

[pinto]

4. I agree. They've got it due...n/t

[pinto]

3. I wish them safety and cool heads. They make a good, current point: Bush's

immigration plan is a lightly retooled, repackaged bracero-style immigrant labor scam. IMO.

[rooboy]

5. One minor correction - PIG FARM, not a ranch. n/t

[NYC]

8. PIG STY.

That's what I call where pigs live.

[rooboy]

9. LOL.... n/t

[Lone_Star_Dem]

6. Their cause is noble but I hope they don't get themselves hurt or worse.

They worked hard deserve what they're asking for. No one ever bothers to think of what becomes of them after they can't work anymore.

[annabanana]

7. Jeez! I hope they've got good body armor.........n/t