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Meanwhile, the Bracero Program lost support, and the United States terminated it in December 1964. One advantage of the program had been its legality. The U.S. government kept records of the immigrant workers; however, undocumented Mexican labourers were also drawn by the promise of employment, and, because of the ease with which illegal immigrants could be hired, only a small portion received valid worker certificates from 1947 to 1960. The influx of undocumented workers sparked a public outcry that contributed to the mass deportation of Mexican nationals in 1954 as part of a controversial U.S. immigration law enforcement campaign that became known as Operation Wetback (its name was derived from the offensive term for Mexican immigrants who traversed the Rio Grande to illegally cross the Mexico-U.S. border). After the Bracero Program ended, many American employers in farm industries still needed the work of immigrants in order to adequat
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Jimmy Sabater, Latin Soul Vocalist, Has Died
Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, Jimmy Sabater was the “velvet voice” of Latin soul. Sabater died on Wednesday, February 8 in New York City of natural causes, according to his son, Jimmy Sabater, Jr. He was 75 years old, as Oliver Wang reports.
Sabater leaves behind an undersung yet influential catalog. Born in Puerto Rico, he became part of a generation of “Nuyorican” artists who grew up in post-war East Harlem and began his career as a timbelero. However, a chance set of circumstances in the mid-1950s lead Sabater to join forces with another young talent on the rise in New York’s Latin music scene Joe Cuba and Sabater became Cuba’s main English-language vocalist.