Mexico – United States border

is Human Trafficking. Many people may think human trafficking does not occur in the United States. In contrast, human trafficking is happening right in our own “backyards”. Human trafficking can be classified into different types of trafficking such as, sex trafficking, labor trafficking and organ trafficking. Sex trafficking and labor trafficking are to be the most popular types of trafficking in the United States. In this research paper, I will be covering the different aspects of human…

One of the main reasons has been continous abuse, deaths, and disappearances in Mexico during the last decade. There has been numerous protests of students in the country were many are killed or disappeared like the case of the 43 students in Ayotzinapa. There was the Tlateloco protest in 1968 where students were protesting against the lack of democracy. It took place in La Casa de las tres Colturas in Tlateloco, Mexico. “The tragic incident of October 1968 took place in the same location as the…

common day. But these ballads were going to change into a corrido a few year later when the Mexico people decided they wanted their independence from Spanish rule. Many people began singing ballads about what had happened during the war. At first, they sang orally, as time pass they added a guitar. This are some events that led to increasing of corrido’s development: “Texas Revolution, Mexican-American War, Border War by Pancho Villa, Zapatista Uprising and much more. All these wars, conflicts,…

expansion. He wanted to claim the southern part of Oregon territory, annex the American Southwest from Mexico and annex Texas. The Whigs nominated Henry Clay. Clay’s platform was opposed to expansion, but his tactics alienated antislavery supporters and enemies of expansion. Electoral votes gave Polk the presidency. His vision was to annex Mexican territory, Texas and Oregon. Texas was a slave state and popular in the South. Northerners objected to the spread of slavery and opposed…

anymore. There is a long and strict process in place created by our federal government to become a legal resident of the United States. Due to this lengthy process to become a U.S. citizen, people from other countries have always found a way to enter into…

the United States primarily fought on foreign soil of which led to great amounts of bloodshed at the detriment of Mexico. The United States originally provoked the war as U.S. president James K. Polk set his eyes on expanding west as he believed in “Manifest Destiny”. The War was a result of the United States Annexation of Texas. Texas was its own Republic from 1836 through 1845 after winning it war for Independence. Mexico although never recognized its independence while the United States did…

nation’s [US] prosperity than Mexicans, yet none makes white America more uneasy about the future (Gonzalez, 2011, p. 96). Mexico is at the core of our country’s Latin heritage and every 2 in 3 Latinos in America are Mexican. But, how did Mexicans get to the discrimination that they are suffering today? In this paper, I will show the violence Mexicans endured following the U.S.-Mexico War, and the many Mexicans groups who were fighting back against their Anglo counterparts, and the Mexican…

Currently the Sinaloa Cartel are the most powerful and the most dangerous cartel of the bunch in Mexico. Earning more than $3 billion per year and controlling a majority of the drug routes on the Mexican-United States border. It is believed the Sinaloa have a presence in all major cities in the United States as well. Operating mainly in Chicago because 70 percent of the United States population lives in areas that have freeways and railroads intersecting with Chicago. Chicago is also one of the…

Maria Luisa immigrated to the USA. During her journey she was accompanied also by her children. She was 38 years old when she left Mexico. The central argument of this essay is to narrate Maria Luisa Alcantara’ journey from Mexico into the United States. Life in Mexico Maria Luisa is native of the City of Chihuahua. The City of Chihuahua is situated in the largest states of the Estados Unidos Mexicanos,…

The United States is a nation of immigrants, which represents a controversial issue in the United States and the world. Benjamin Franklin in the eighteenth century overwrought by myriad German immigrants would vanquish the influence of the British in the country. Irish immigrants in the nineteenth century were abhorred as sluggish alcoholic. In the twenty-first century, similar consternation is conducted against Latin American immigrants, which an extensive majority of the immigrant population…