Add to ORKGMr. Vargas began to work since he was eight years old with his father in the fields and taking care of animals. Mr. Vargas worked in the construction of the Panamerican highway trying to earn enough money for his family and himself. He worked without documentation in the United States when he was eighteen. At the age of twenty-three he heard about the bracero program and was hired in Juarez. At the same age, he married in Mexico and had a family of four daughters and four sons. Vargas traveled to El Paso, Texas, and was hired at Fort Bliss. The first place where Mr. Vargas worked was in Doña Ana, Nuevo Mexico, picking cotton. His salary was very low, earning $0.35 per hour. He finally received the American residency through one of his daugh...