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...historical roots of this resentment date to the Texas War of 1836 and the Mexican-American War of 1846-48, in which the U.S. forced Mexico to cede all its territory north of the Rio Grande. Then, early in this century, Americans' investments gained considerable control over the Mexican economy. Today, Mexico sells to the U.S. two-thirds of its $5 billion in annual exports. From its northern neighbor, Mexico obtains 72% of its $6.4 billion in foreign capital investment and many of its consumer goods. From the north, too, come the tourists, 3.7 million of them, spending about...
George Sanchez, the assembly's special representative from RAZA, a Mexican-American campus organization, asked the assembly to send the letter to Dean Rosovsky, President Bok, Archiv C. Epps III, dean of students, and Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean for undergraduate education...
...actually keep out illegal immigrants is an open question even to Norris. Said he of the immigrants: "They'll run cars through it or put a cutting torch to it." Or simply walk around it. Mexican Americans regard the fence as insulting. Said Vilma Martinez, president of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund: "With all due respect to Robert Frost, good fences do not make good neighbors...
BACK IN 1972, however, Tower did cast a good vote for bilingual education, and he has been making political mileage out of it ever since. Mexican-American radio stations have been inundated with ads touting the vote. There are billboards plastered all over the Spanish-speaking parts of town that say "Tower, Con Nosotros." Tower, he's with...
...provide free public schooling to children who cannot prove permanent legal immigrant status for themselves or their parents. Even fellow Hispanics often turn undocumented workers over to the INS. Says Jos? Ramiriz of the Chicane Training Center in Houston: "There are mixed feelings about the undocumented in the Mexican-American community. The feeling is that they're receiving services that should be going to [legal] Mexican Americans...