LARIOS

Food. 5 minute short story: so what do you do when you're craving Mexican food in a predominantly white neighborhood in the 50s and there are no MEX cuisine close by? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/maribel12/message

The Bracero Program was the largest guest worker experiment in American history with over 4.2 Million mostly men brought in from Mexico to work the fields while the US was at war.  This created links and life lines that are present to this day and families affected on both sides of the border.  My grandfathers both participated and were braceros.  Once the program ended in the 60's all men were given a ticket to go back to Mexico.  Both went home but only one of my grandfathers decided to take the chance and migrate to the USA again with hopes of eventually migrating the entire family out here.  "Paying it forward - Bilingual Style" talks about Leocadio Larios' story where he started that journey.  As children of migrants we have the gift of being bilingual and this allows us to live and morph two different cultures, while embracing these creates greater compassion for the newer arrivals. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/maribel12/message

An introduction to this podcast. A series of interviews and stories of a beautiful love story, incredible sacrifice, and the commonality of it all in many immigrant families. This is the story of an All-American girl first generation Mexican American child of actual soulmates, child of immigrants. Live interviews from the people who lived it taken from the child who is observed with incredible privilege throughout her life. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/maribel12/message