During World War II, some things changed, because there was a manual labor shortage and immigrants were demanded. The farming area raising alfalfa, flax, and other vital war crops seriously short of farm labor and the solution was to allow Mexicans to help. Henry Frauenfelder understood Mexican “help was absolutely necessary to harvest vitally essential war crops” and even wanted “deportation be stayed temporarily or until authority for legal entry can be secured”. Then congressional efforts to use immigrant ethnic Mexican labor in the U.S. Southwest; created the “Bracero” program which brought temporary workers in mainly from Mexico to work in agriculture. Under the Bracero program Mexican working conditions were unsafe, with low wages and
