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They Called Them Greasers: Anglo Attitudes Toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821–1900 (U of Texas Press, 1983). De León, Arnoldo, and Kenneth L. Stewart. "Tejano Demographic Patterns and Socio-economic Development," Borderlands Journal 7 (Fall 1983) García, Mario T. Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans of El Paso, 1880–1920 (Yale UP, 1981).
US-born Americans of Mexican heritage earn more and are represented more in the middle and upper-class segments more than most recently arriving Mexican immigrants. Two Mexican American boys at a Día de Los Muertos celebration in Greeley, Colorado. Most immigrants from Mexico, as elsewhere, come from the lower classes and from families ...
The U.S. Border Patrol packed Mexican immigrants into trucks when transporting them to the border for deportation during Operation Wetback.. Operation Wetback was an immigration law enforcement initiative created by Joseph Swing, a retired United States Army lieutenant general and head of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).
People with Mexican heritage would not have a major presence in Iowa until about 1920. In 1900, the federal census recorded only 29 people with Mexican nativity. The number increased to 620 in ...
The city of Houston has significant populations of Mexican Americans, Mexican immigrants, and Mexican citizen expatriates. Houston residents of Mexican origin make up the oldest Hispanic ethnic group in Houston, and Jessi Elana Aaron and José Esteban Hernández, authors of "Quantitative evidence for contact-induced accommodation: Shifts in /s/ reduction patterns in Salvadoran Spanish in ...
Mexican immigrants in the United States are also pillars of the Mexican economy, sending more than $60 billion annually in remittances back to their homeland. Sheinbaum, who took office Oct. 1 ...
Lorena Borjas (1960–2020) – Mexican-born American transgender and immigrant rights activist, known as the mother of the transgender Latinx community in Queens, New York; Norma V. Cantu (born 1954) – civil rights lawyer and college professor; Carlos Cadena (1917–2001) – attorney in the landmark Hernandez v. Texas supreme court case
Post-World War I fear of communism manifested itself in Los Angeles through an increased nationalistic, anti-immigrant sentiment. While prominent politicians such as former governor Hiram Johnson and activist Simon Lubin advocated for progressive policies, such as women's rights and labor rights, local politics of Los Angeles county and California at large leaned conservative, with governor ...