Dbq Essay On Mexican Immigration

During the 1910s, the Mexican Revolution occurred in Mexico causing a wave of Mexican immigration to the United States. In the 1920s, Mexican immigration continued to grow in the United States in search of job opportunities. The agricultural work Mexican immigrants undertook benefited economies of the border states in particular: Texas, Arizona, and California. While some Americans recognized the Mexican’s contribution to the agricultural and industrial expansion of Western states, some did not appreciate the Mexicans living in the United States. These Americans believed that Mexicans should only live in the United States temporarily, that they would ruin the American race, and that they were irresponsible people. Mexican immigrants performed most of the agricultural work in the United States. They helped the agricultural and industrial expansion of the western United States. People recognize the major contribution Mexicans make to the economies of the United States, but that doesn’t mean they want Mexicans to stay in the US. In Document D, W. H. Knox, representative of the Arizona Cotton Growers Association, stated, “We are not asking for the Mexicans to come in here as a permanent resident.we are asking only for him to come in here as a temporary resident.” Knox’s …show more content…

This movement posed a “science” that promoted the belief that “Nordics”, white people from or descended from Northern and Western Europe, were a superior race. They also believed that the” mixing of races” would destroy the superior “Nordic” race. In Document E, Francis H. Kinnicutt stated and I quote, “We are getting too much of this Mexican immigration.The excessive newer immigration has injured.our national homogeneity.” Kinnicutt and other members of the Eugenics movement did not appreciate the Mexican immigration in the United States because it was “affecting” the white