Barbed wire is also featured prominently in this second image for station 11, a painting by Chicano artist Domingo Ulloa titled Braceros. The Bracero Program, launched in 1942, brought Mexican guest workers to the US to fill in agricultural labor shortages caused by World War II. While it sounded great on paper, the braceros faced harsh living and working conditions and discrimination and were often cheated of their wages. A US Department of Labor officer at the time referred to the Bracero Program as “legalized slavery.”