And we believe NBC news because they’re supposedly honest?
At that time in the 1950s I was a child living with my family along Oxnard Beach in Ventura County, California. Between the beach community and Oxnard proper were acres and acres of truck farms, and to this day the odor of harvested cabbage is memorable. (Some smells you never forget.) Today those farms have vanished; replaced by tract homes.
The Mexican farm workers came to the U.S. during WWII as so many menfolk were away at war. When they returned, there no longer existed a reason for foreign nationals to work the fields as there was high unemployment among military veterans.
Was the deportations unpopular with the general population? No, I never saw that, even in the late 1960s. I don’t know where NBC is coming from on this except via complaining farmers.
People generally wanted the braceros to go home after the war. Lyndon Johnson stuck his foot in the door (just like Obama) as the Senate Majority Leader -- now why'd he do that? Must have been his eleemosynary impulses </s> -- and it took an executive order (E.O.) signed by Pres. Eisenhower to send the visitors back home.
Landslide Lyndon knew about the kneejerk voting tendencies of Mexicans (South Americans split their votes), that's where he was coming from, hoping to cash in on (then) 40 years of Mexican Communism.