The federal government created the bracero program to recruit Mexican workers for agricultural jobs because:
a. Most Mexican Americans who had worked on farms took better jobs in cities.
b. Many Mexican workers went back to Mexico to avoid the draft.
c. Mexican workers refused to come to America without guarantees of labor conditions.
d. Farmers refused to hire American workers.
ANSWER: a
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