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Mexican Immigration Research Paper

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Mexican immigration
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By Anders Hedin

Intro

First question, why does immigration have such a bad shadow overcasting it?
It’s because that every so often people go across without asking. This is called illegal immigration it usually occurs when people in poor countries try to immigrate but don’t have enough money. But the bad thing is people think that all Mexican immigrants are illegal.

Causes

But why would they leave their home country
One reason is the rich had absolute power over the poor, that started the Mexican revolution.In which texas seceded from Mexico. The reason of immigration due to poor economic systems still exists today. Poor economics was one of the biggest reasons of Mexican immigration to this day, however another large wave of immigrants came from Mexico during WW2 (World War 2). The reason of this wave of immigrants is during the war all the farmers and field workers were signing up or being drafted into the military. So the united states congress decided that the Mexicans would take the place of the used to be farmers now solders. The reason that congress decided the mexicans could work at the farms was that the Mexicans were A: not fighting in the war …show more content…

You could just take all you had that you want to bring to the different country, strap it down to a wagon, and get moving. It was easy at that time to immigrate because most of the US was still indian territory. So the Mexican immigrants could find a good clearing with a surrounding forest and build a home. But now we get to later times of the Mexican American War the US had expanded by that time and because of the war the US didn’t really like the Mexican peoples so they discriminated against them and sent them back to Mexico (at this time a very poor country). Now let's go to a more recent time of the last twenty-ish years. Mexico is still a poor country and the poor workers want a better place to live

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