In a now infamous backroom deal hatched between the American Federation of Labor (AFL), the Farm Bureau, southern white segregationists, and new deal democrats, farm workers and domestic servants were specifically excluded from the right to engage in activities of mutual aid, protection, and collective bargaining as extended to other U.S. workers under the 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Starting in WWII and through the mid 1960s the infamous “Bracero” program also facilitated the recruitment of close to four million seasonal farm workers from Mexico into the U.S. as a cheap labor option for agribusiness.