The book “Y no se lo trago la tierra” by Thomas River and the article “Immigrants: The Story of a Bracero” by author David Bacon represent both a historical time. In 1942 the United States and Mexico negotiated an agreement known as the “Bracero Program.” This agreement gave Mexicans the opportunity to come to the United States and improve their lives. On the other hand, for Americans it was help they needed to keep the country going after World War II. This need led the United States to make a complete turning point. First they were trying to prevent Mexican immigrants from entering the country and now they had to open the doors to them. Therefore, the United States needed Mexican workers to help provide food for the soldiers and keep agriculture growing. Additionally, large numbers of migrant farm workers arrive every year and are scattered across countries, taking positions that Americans would never tolerate due to the harsh conditions, insufficient pay, and physically demanding work they face. All of this leads to a difficult historical moment for both counties as Thomas Rivera and David Bacon illustrate the points of view of their protagonists through stories and testimonies of the experience and struggles they faced during this time. The book “Y no se lo trago la tierra” by Thomas River captures the perspective of a migrant community, as a manifestation of Chicano culture, language and experience, as understood from the first-person perspective of a young person male protagonist. The book's setting takes place over a year in the 1950s and uses a variety of perspectives and voices to follow the boy's transition into adolescence. As the setting of the book shifts from Texas to the upper Midwest to the years...... half of the paper...... the authors, as is almost always negative. Both authors bring the reader into the very small, limiting, and confusing world of migrants, a world defined by general physical and emotional segregation. But their separation from the Anglo-Saxons is balanced by their closeness to family and community. In both the book and the article, families wash, eat, sleep and work together; in fact they work a lot. Additionally, the characters value education, although this theme is better developed by Rivera, as his narrative spans an entire year, while Bacon is limited only to his experience that he recalls during the interview. In particular, Rivera's story "It's That It Hurts" presents the complex dilemma faced by migrant children who enter racist school systems while carrying with them their family's high hopes that school will be the children's ticket out of the camps..