Rio Grande

Immigration: The Unexpected Truth Immigration is a majorly debated issue in many countries, but especially the United States. Even though our country was basically founded on the principle that people of all ethnicities can feel safe here, our country continues to discriminate against certain immigrants. Many people seek religious freedom and a better way of life when they take the journey to America. Our country should have pride that we are viewed as the land of the free and as one of the best…

Enrique’s Journey. A project reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Nazario talks about the true story of a young Honduran boy named Enrique that was abandoned at the age of 5 by his mother Lourdes. Lourdes left to the United States as an immigrant to work so she can be able to give her poor children a better living. After 11 years of tears, sadness and loneliness Enrique decides to go to North Carolina in search of his mother. Traveling from Honduras across the Mexican republic and “El Tren De La…

Ted Conover’s Coyotes is a first hand description of illegal immigration from a point of view that many Americans may have maybe never before considered. It is descriptive and emotional, and at many times controversial. The US has seen a rapid increase in immigrants who have come into the US seeking better lives for themselves and families. These immigrants, like those throughout US history, are generally hard workers and make important contributions to the economy through their productive labor…

Political: In the City of Edinburg, politics split into three parts, 68.920% Democratic, 30.290% Republican, and 0.796% independent. Economic: Edinburg Economic Development Corporation’s Executive Director, Ramiro Garza Jr., Reports that Edinburg has generated over $1.14 million in local sales taxes for the month of April 2009. This figure is up 11% compared to $1,033,765.77 produced in the same month in 2008. The local sales taxes generated by the city’s one and a half cent local sales…

The worst president the United States ever had to been William Jefferson Clinton, commonly known as Bill Clinton, the 42nd president from 1993-2001. He was born in 1946 in Hope, Arkansas, and is one of the few one percent that made it from rags to riches. He graduated from Georgetown University, attended Oxford University, and earned a law degree from Yale University (Hamilton, 2003). His profession as a lawyer led to his political career. In 1974, Clinton became a Democratic leader in the U.S.…

The Mexican American War The United States and Mexico were both newly established countries. Both were less organized than their mother countries. However, one of these two countries had an almost uncontrollable hunger for land expansion. This hunger led to the two countries fighting over true ownership of land. Though the dispute was mainly over claiming land, many other factors helped evolve this fight into the Mexican American War. The year was 1821. A large territory in the Americas had…

2016, the year of change. A change in stocks, a change in presidents, a change in political views, and a change in societal lenses. Because of the upcoming era of the Republican and the strict ideals brought along with the presidential reign of Donald Trump, the Hispanic population and culture is vastly being oppressed and isolated due to the change in stances on immigration. In addition to being of Hispanic background, being a part of the lower working class in socio-economic times like this…

Isabelle Lorette Mr. Colson US History 1 Honors 24 February 2015 Desire of Expansion from Sea to Shining Sea In 1783 when the Treaty of Paris was signed to end the Revolutionary War with Britain, America’s land consisted of the thirteen original colonies. These former colonies were located along the eastern coast of North America. Western expansion essentially stopped at the Appalachian Mountains, and it was fairly rare to travel beyond them. During the nineteenth century, America continued…

Mexico formally agreed to give Texas independance, and it was soon annexed into the United states during the era of Manifest Destiny. Relationships took a turn for the worst in 1846, when, after Mexico refused James Polk’s proposal to make the Rio Grande the country border, the United States invaded, thus beginning the Mexican-American war. The war was short, and ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo two years later. Mexico lost a lot of land, that then became part of the United States. The…

The president of the US at the time was John Tyler, he annexed Texas just before he left the presidency. When James K. Polk became the new president, he ordered troops to go to Mexico and intimidate Mexico. The invasion took place south of the Rio Grande River. This event resulted in American deaths and caused a war between Texas and Mexico. After the war was over the US acquired 1/3 of Mexico. With the new land acquired the Americans didn’t know if the land was going to be free land or slave…