MEXICAN IMMIGRATION
Luis Aguilar Perez & Enrique C.
Mexican Immigration
- Mexican immigrants started to come to the united states in the early 1980's and continued immigrating. By 2008 there were 11.4 million immigrants in the united states.
- Mexican Immigrants started coming to the united states to look for a better life and to try to get away from all the drugs and corruption that there was in Mexico.
- Mexicans became to immigrate into the united states when WWII was ending because that was the chance they had to come due to reconstruction.
- The immigration and Naturalization act of 1965 also known as the hart-celler act
- 11 million immigrants came into the united states
- when Mexican immigrants were caught by immigration they were put in cells with no food or anything to drink and were left their for days.
- Mexican immigrants usually settled in California or Texas
- The most typical job for immigrant was usually the one that nobody wanted to work at for example farming or agriculture.
- Mexican brought experience and courage to the us showing them what there capable of.