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More than 16 million Mexicans migrated to the United States between 1965 and 2015. Most Mexican Americans were born in the United States, and most Mexican immigrants have arrived legally. However, the number of Mexicans wanting to live in the United States has greatly exceeded the number permitted under U.S. immigration limits.
- Cubans
Hispanic Americans - Cubans: In January 1959 revolutionary...
- Chicano
Chicano, identifier for people of Mexican descent born in...
- Operation Wetback
Operation Wetback, U.S. immigration law enforcement campaign...
- Mexican Americans
Other articles where Mexican American is discussed: Hispanic...
- Illegal Immigration
…to the United States, where illegal immigration became a...
- Migrant Labour
migrant labour, casual and unskilled workers who move about...
- Cubans
In 2015, the United States admitted 157,227 Mexican immigrants, and as of November 2016, 1.31 million Mexicans were on the waiting list to immigrate to the United States through legal means. A 2014 survey showed that 34% of Mexicans would immigrate to the United States if given the opportunity, with 17% saying they would do it illegally.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War in 1848, ceded 525,000 square miles--55% of--Mexican territory to the United States. In exchange, the United States paid approximately $15 million in damages to pay for destruction of Mexican property by the U.S. military during the war. Thousands of Mexican, Spanish, and ...
Early Twentieth Century Mexican Immigration to the U.S. Creating an Empire: U.S. Expansion at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; Why They Fought: Ordinary Soldiers in the Civil War; Two Wings of the Same Bird: Cuban Immigration and Puerto Rican Migration to the United States; Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl; Military History and the LGBTQ+ ...
In 1957, a group of Mexican American high school students overcame racist barriers to win the Texas state golf championship. The story is told in the new film The Long Game.
History of Latin America, the history of the region (South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Romance language-speaking Caribbean islands) from the pre-Columbian period, including Spanish and Portuguese colonization, the 19th-century wars of independence, and developments to the end of the 20th century.
Early Twentieth Century Mexican Immigration to the U.S. Creating an Empire: U.S. Expansion at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; Why They Fought: Ordinary Soldiers in the Civil War; Two Wings of the Same Bird: Cuban Immigration and Puerto Rican Migration to the United States; Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl; Military History and the LGBTQ+ ...