Mexico – United States border

define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly. Wetbacks are people who enter the United States illegally; this is because the people who come here have their values changed. People in other countries usually leave home to find jobs because the jobs in their own country are gone or disappearing. The money they make from the job they hope to get in the United States would be used to help out their families back home. These people are superstitious for when they travel…

Mexico and Drug Violence Imagine having rights you take for granted taken away. Think about not being able to live comfortable in your own neighborhood or even having the your right to stay alive. There are growing Mexican cartels invading manys’ lives in and surrounding the Mexico area. The cartels, as of 2006, are murdering while distributing drugs among many other countries and the issue has been growing. If they are not stopped, they will grow and become more powerful as territory is gained…

war on Mexico is a very controversial topic because of the events that led to the beginning of the war and the things that are going on until this day. This war not only affects Mexicans, but it also affects neighboring countries such as the United States. Many people seem to believe that the war on Mexico is going to lock down on the drugs that are being smuggled into the United States, while others see it as a way to terrorize them into giving them our drugs. The war on drugs in Mexico is a…

In 1821, Mexico gained its independence from Spain, but 25 years later, Mexico had to endure another war. Culture differences between Mexico and the U.S led to conflict . Mexico was Catholic and the U.S. mostly were Protestant/Pro-Slavery. Once James K. Polk was elected, everything changed. Polk not only wanted Texas, he wanted California as well. The thing is, California was still Mexico’s territory. Texas, however, was not, after winning their independence from Mexico in 1836. Polk tried to…

Although I was born in the United States I consider myself a Mexican because I was born and raised the way my parents were. This Mexican American studies class has taught me about the importance of my cultural background and why it is important to know where as Mexican Americans came from. I didn’t know how much Mexicans had gone through to get us where we are now until…

the continent of North America. Mexico is the 14th largest nation in the world. Mexico borders with 3 other countries which include: United States of America, Guatemala, and Balize. Size: Less than three times the size of the state of Texas. Geography: Mexico has many uninhabited islands off the E and W coasts. The center of Mexico is a great, high plateau, open to the north, with mountain chains on the east and west and with ocean-front lowlands beyond. Mexico has sweeping deserts in the…

great wall along the southern border. And Mexico will pay for the wall.” He plans to build a wall to separate Mexico and the United States. Donald Trump believes that this will solve the immigration issues that the United States are having today. Not only is he planning to build the wall, but he wants Mexico to pay for it. However, this was the better option for Mexico because Donald Trump gave them the option of either paying their debts to the United States, or paying for the wall.…

been through. Mexico has been not through one conquest, but two conquests. Mexico was made of many different indigenous groups before the 1st conquest. More than ninety two percent of the population in Mexico was killed. The eight percent that remained either became a slave or fled north of Mexico to what now is Texas, California and New Mexico. The second conquest consisted in land being taken over by the United States. There was a war over the territory of what today we call the state of…

the Lone Star Republic? Texas is one of the two states to be an independant country. For nearly a decade, Texas was a lone star republic, officially named the Republic of Texas. This all started in 1821, when mexico became independent from spain, with Mexico controlling Texas. When Mexico banned slaves, Texas felt, Which started a big war between them. The Lone Star Republic was significant becau Texas pursued independance all because of how Mexico treated them. It all started when The…

In How Race is Made in America author Natalia Molina introduces the concept of racial scripts which also become and overarching theme throughout the book. Racial scripts highlight the ways in which the lives of racialized groups are linked across time and space and thereby affect one another, even when not directly crossing paths. (Molina 2014: 6) Molina argues that the perceived position of a group is represented when its members are seen as relative to other groups through this space…