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Mexican migration to the united states started. Workers would stay for a few years, working in agricultural places, and then go back to Mexico with more money than they would have made there in Mexico. -
Documented and undocumented Mexicans would cross the border to produce, produce and the western growers needed a steady supply of labor that the Mexicans had to offer. Then the offical Bracero program which offered protection to Mexican guest workers which worked out perfectly. -
Then twelve years later they saw the enactment of "operation wetback" and this deported thousands of illegal Mexican workers. -
The main wave of cuban immigration into the United States began after Fidel Castro came into power. -
Average standard of living in Mexico may be lower than living in the United States but it is not low enough to make to make permant migration their goal. Strengthening the border began with the Immigration Reform and Control Act made a one-way rule for most Mexican. The rise on the illegal one-way immigration of Mexicans is a direct outcome of the law that was made in intent to reduce it. -
This agreement curltailed legal immigration from Cuba, leading many Cubans to come into the U.S illegally by boat. -
Mexican Americans were at the center of the national debate of immigration. No other minority groups (excpet chinese) had immigrated into the U.S since this big dispute. He said that in a few years three times the amount of undocumented immigrants coming in would be the same as the ones documented. He noted that they are not entering to cause harm but because of the economic opportunity. -
a report from the congressional Research service, the U.S government applied a "wet/dry foot' policy to the Cuban immigrants. Cubans that were found still in the sea returned to Cuba while the ones that reached the shore were allowed to stay in the United States. -
In 2010 75% of the respondents that identified as Hispanic were either from Mexican, Puerto Rican, or Cuban origin. The U.S Census allows for a person to identify as more than one ethnicity. -
The Hispanic population is still growing a Hispanic with any race is almost at 19.5% of the U.S population. Their largest racial or ethnic groups are in California and New Mexico. 18% of them are living in poverty, 18.7% of all Hispanics living in the U.S are working. More than 50% of all Latino workers do not have access to paid sick leave at their jobs.