article_snippet: As a teenager, Juan Rocha's father left Juan Rocha's father life of poverty in Mexico for the promise of a new life in the United States in 1959.
article_snippet: The hard, physical work of picking crops in the fields of California, Arizona and Texas, earned Juan Rocha's father less than a dollar a day, once room and board was subtracted.
article_snippet: The Braceros program granted Juan Rocha's father a work visa and when Juan Rocha's father finished The Braceros program, Juan Rocha's father began Juan Rocha's father path to citizenship.
article_snippet: Juan Rocha's father did not complete any formal education past fourth grade.
article_snippet: In that era in Mexico, you had to pay for school past a certain grade and Juan Rocha's father's family couldn't afford it.
article_snippet: Juan Rocha's father was limited to menial work and low wages.
highlights_snippet: Juan Rocha's father came to the U.S. from Mexico on a work visa program .
  
highlights_snippet: While Juan Rocha's father picked crops, Juan Rocha's didn't have a life of backbreaking labor .
  