Text 1: Historian Park argues that the Bracero Program (1942–1964) — which brought millions of Mexican guest workers to U.S. farms — served as a model for orderly labor migration. Workers earned income, employers got harvested crops, and the program's contractual framework, Park contends, is worth recovering for contemporary immigration debates.
Text 2: Historian Singh accepts the program's logistical scale but rejects the "model" framing. Bracero workers, she notes, faced wage theft, unsafe housing, and arbitrary deportation; the program depressed wages for U.S. farm laborers; many workers later returned irregularly because the legal channel proved unreliable. Park's "model," Singh contends, omits the system's record of abuse.
Based on the texts, how would Singh (Text 2) most likely respond to Park's argument?
- A
She would propose ending all guest-worker programs forever.
- B
She would agree that the Bracero Program is a clear policy model.
- Ccheck_circle
She would accept the program's scale while arguing that its abuses make it a poor model.
- D
She would deny that the program ever existed.
Explanation
Singh accepts the scale but disputes the model framing on the basis of abuses. C captures this. A reverses; B is absurd; D overstates.