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Ellen Ochoa becomes hte first Hispanic woman to go to space abroad the Space Shuttle Discovery.
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NAFTA takes effect eliminating all tariffis bewteen Canada, Mexico and the United States.
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California passes prop 187 with 59 percent of the vote.
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Proposition 187 is ruled uncontitutuional, according to the federal government.
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She became the first Mexican American Vice President of the Service Employee International Union.
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Following the terrorist attack of 9/11, harassment and police profiling increased. Which for the next five years immigrants faced discrimination.
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Hispanics are pronounced as the nation's largest minority group
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Arizonans organize a group called "Tbe Minutemen".
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The first Mexican American mayor of Los Angles
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Hundred of thousands of Latin immigrants participated in the Day Without Immigrants, boycotting work and school.
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Was designed a National Historic Landmark. Offering national sanction relief to Cuban refugees.
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Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in as the first latina in the Supreme Court Justice.
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Jan Brewer signs the toughest anti-illegal immigrant law in United States History.
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The state of Georgia enacts its own version of Arizona's SB-1070. SB-1070- anyone stopped witthout a drivers license was handed over to immigration
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Hispanics made up about 51 million people in the United States.
