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Mexican Immigration

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Mexican Immigration

1819 Adam-Onis Treaty: U.S.-Mexico boundary established by Spain and the United States.

1883 Chinese labor is reduced because of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and railroad companies search for alternative sources of cheap labor. Mexican workers are increasingly recruited.

1910 Mexican Revolution begins. Thousands of Mexicans flee across the border for safety.

1924 Immigration Act of 1924 halts the flow of other immigrant groups, border stations are established to formally admit Mexican workers, and a tax is collected on each person entering.

1942 The bracero program begins, allowing Mexican nationals to temporarily work in the United States – primarily in the agricultural industry.

1953 Operation Wetback: The U.S. Immigration Service deports more than 3.8 million people of Mexican heritage.

1964 The bracero program is finally repealed, and Mexican American labor leaders see an opportunity to work toward unionizing the farmworkers.

1965 Nationality quotas are abolished. Act establishes a limit of 170,000 on immigration from Eastern Hemisphere and limit of 120,000 fron Western Hemisphere.

The Experience

Mexican Assimulation in America

Between 1850 and 1880, 55,000 Mexican workers immigrated to the United States to become field hands in regions that had, until very recently, belonged to Mexico.

In 1924, the U.S. Border Patrol was created, an event which would have a significant impact on the lives of Mexican workers. Though the public did not immediately view Mexicans as "illegal aliens," the law now stated that undocumented workers were fugitives. With the advent of the Border Patrol, the definition "illegal alien" is born, and many Mexican citizens north of the border are subject to much suspicion.