Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Leonel I. Castello
This story was about Mexican immigration. The hard isn’t just getting across the border, it’s also managing to get a job and provide for your family. So many Mexicans are deported every day, but they still come back for more, over and over and over again. These Mexicans are trying to live the American dream, but they are denied it. The xenophobia on the border was crazy. In 1954, more than a million Mexicans were deported. “Sometimes they were people who merely looked Mexican. The violations of civil liberties were terrible” (Terkel 80). The deportations got so bad that American citizens were being pulled out of their homes and sent to Mexico, just because they looked Mexican. This is like the Alien and Sedition Acts, Americans closed the door to Mexican immigration.
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I think you made a great point comparing the alien and sedation acts to what was going on with deporting people back to mexico merely becasue they "looked mexican". The alien and sedation acts allowed the government to deport any alien who they found to be "undesirable", and the situation you described regarding deporting these people back to mexico seems to be very similar to that.
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