I think I was somewhere five or six years old. But dad participated in the bracero program, so he went to California in 1961. Seven years in the bracero program. What's that? What's bracero program? Bracero program was the former wetback program, because that's what it was actually called, the wetback program. You did get a wetback card. He still has it. 61 to 60. 68. And then he finally settled in Chicago, and then one of our family members moved here to Fort Worth, and we've been here since 1969. (02:05–02:11)
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