Mexican American Discrimination Irving Omar Jimenez Axia College of University of Phoenix The Mexican migration into the United States has been dated back to the 19th century. It is believed that one of the main reasons for the migration originated from President Porfirio Diaz’s financial expansion plan. His strategy was to improve Mexico’s image in hopes of obtaining foreign investment. The plan was to construct a railroad system that would simplify the access for raw material from Mexico for the Americans. Three of the states where the majority of immigrants settled in were California, Arizona and Texas.
These are the questions that will be answered in this paper. There are many individuals who would like to know the answers to these very same questions. Mexico is in the middle of one of its most dramatic increases in population it has seen yet. With Mexico’s increased population, the economy had started to decline so individuals and families decide to migrate to the U.S. Not only does the economy struggle but the social conditions are struggling as well. Even as the U.S. is going through an economic hardship Mexican immigrants are still increasing in population as time goes on.
As history would show, this legal immigration led to illegal immigration and foreshadowed today’s debate on these topics. Immigration in February of 1928 about the burden of the unrestricted flow of Mexicans on the state’s taxpayers, prisons, hospitals and American workers’ wages. He estimated that while 67,000 Mexicans entered the U.S. legally the prior year, many times that number entered illegally. I believe that today’s high level of illegal immigration originated during the war years of the early 1940s. Labor shortages caused the federal government to set up a program to import Mexican laborers to work temporarily in agriculture, primary in the Southwest.
Navarro utilizes a big portion of the book explaining La Raza Unida’s history and influences as a third party beginning from the 1960’s in Texas from where it grew out from the Chicano movement occurring during the time period. He focuses on the party’s growth from the grievances of Mexican-Americans in the Southwestern regions and how its formation was fueled by the injustices done by “the gringos”. He explains how the Chicano organizations, specifically MAYO, helped form the party and how a man named José Angel Gutiérrez was a driving force behind the party’s creation in Texas. The author then explains it success throughout its time period and how it influenced politics as a third party, he explained how it was able to be a force that was able to put Chicanos into political positions and he explains how it was a force not to be
A The two most significant geographic and environmental factors that helped develop and expand regions of the United States are, The California Gold Rush of 1848 and The Great American Dust Bowl of the 1930's. The Gold Rush took place in what is now California, and began the 24th day of January in 1948 when a miner discovered a shiny gold near Coloma, California. The news of his findings spread quickly and eventually brought over 250,000 people to the area from all over the world (Wikipedia, 2013). "One of the migrations stimulated by the discovery of gold was the internal westward movement of Americans from the Eastern states who hoped to make a fortune in California" (Dan C Hazen). The effects on societies in the state of California and even throughout the country that the rush were enormous.
‘Making of a Negro Ghetto’ Review Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto is book written by Allan H. Spear in 1967. The specific chapter, “The Making of a Negro Ghetto” specifically addresses the topic of the growth of a ‘black belt’ in Chicago where most African Americans lived in the early 1900’s. The chapter tries to explain how these African Americans came to live in this area. This chapter also tries to compare the experience of the African American in Chicago to the experience of whites in the same city. Spear tells of how the Negro population increased dramatically on the eve of and after World War 1, although it was mostly through African Americans moving north from states such as Kentucky and Missouri.
While most people of Mexican descent still refused to call themselves Chicanos, many had come to adopt many of the principles intrinsic in the concept of chicanismo." Chicanos did this through the creation of works of literary and visual art that validated the Mexican American ethnicity and culture. The term Chicano was originally used as a derogatory label for the sons and daughters of Mexican migrants. This new generation of Mexican Americans was singled out by people on both sides of the border in whose view these Mexican Americans were not "American", yet they were not "Mexican", either. In the 1960s "Chicano" was accepted as a symbol of self-determination and ethnic pride.
As stated by the U.S. Census Bureau, this is a significant event that is fundamental to the future of the United States, (Vidal de Haymes 102). Largely concentrated in the South and West, over half of the nation’s Latinos reside in California and Texas, (Vidal de Haymes 107). Disproportionately affected by a higher population of Latino immigrants, these two states are faced with the challenge integrating newcomers in its society, (The Hispanic Challenge? What We Know About Latino Immigration). In the past ten years, however, Latino migrants have settled and integrated into more areas that have had previously only a small number of immigrants.
The 1840s and 1850s marked the beginning of Asian immigration to the United States, starting with the arrival of Chinese in Hawaii and on the mainland West Coast. Initially, laborers found work on the sugar plantations and in the gold mines, and later supplied much of the manual labor for the building of the western leg of the transcontinental railway. By the turn of the twentieth century, the same employment opportunities began to draw increasing numbers of immigrants from other parts of Asia, including Japan, the Philippines, Korea, and India. However, successive waves of Asian immigration tended to create corresponding waves of anti-Asian sentiment. Labor leaders, temperance activists, and agricultural interests pressed the government to
This current population growth trend began with the initiation of the Immigration Act of 1965 from the massive immigration of both legal and illegal immigrants entering the United States over the past forty years. Accounting for nearly 4.5% of the world's population, America is the third largest, fastest growing, consisting of infinitely more diverse cultures than any other country throughout the world (Heisler & Shrestha, 2011). The constant human quest for economic opportunities in recent decades has increased the flow of economic refugees to the United States putting an enormous strain on America's public institutions and social services. Furthermore, the political turmoil in existence globally increases the flow of political refugees seeking asylum and sanctuary. Refugees from the Vietnam (Military Action) War, my family and I have first-hand experience of the discriminations and prejudices held by Americans toward foreigners when we first immigrated to the United States in 1975 following the fall of Saigon.