Research Paper On Mexican Americans

"Recent statistics from the United States Census Bureau (2012) indicate that 12.9 percent of the population are foreign born, and 33.1

Mexican Americans are americans that are partial or full mexican descent. In the 1920’s Mexican Americans legally and illegally immigrated to the United States, even to other countries.

It is logical that two-thirds of Mexican-American population in the United States live in Texas, California, and Arizona because these three states are the closest state to the Mexican border. They allow Mexicans to go back to their homeland and are attractive locations for the Mexican-American populations to make their

An immigrant that is coming to the United States has the emotion and perception that draws to a country of opportunities; that will live in a country that will be friendly. However, most of the time, immigrant do not know that they are coming to live in a different culture, and because of that, they need to experience and adjustment in many ways, and an adjustment that will help them to do many things with confidence.

Nonetheless.in reality,Mexican American makes up 10% of the United States population and the United States is home to the second-largest Mexican community in the world, second only to Mexico itself.Noticeably,Mexican American history spans more than 400 years and varies from region to region within the United States.

In October 5, 1904 forty light skin, with fair hair and blue eyes orphans that appeared to be in good health arrived to Morenci and Clifton, Arizona from New York. These orphan children were a mix of both sexes and ranging in age from two and half years to five years. This priest was a Frenchman named Mandin who had only been in the country for eight months. The orphans were under the charge of Whitney Swayne and accompanied by three nuns named Miss Reynolds, Miss Dixon and Miss Bowen. This orphans were distributed to Mexican families in Morenci and Clifton, American families protested that these American children were not to be given to Mexicans families that didn’t even had money to support their own children. Hundreds of Americans gathered

Not everyone is born free and equal, but everyone is made equal. Immigration across the United States has created many different perspectives and opinions over the movement. Social and political departments have created a discussion and issue for this subject. The most common or popular immigrants in the United States are Hispanics, but there is a vast migration of Asians as well. Stereotypes are created in order to censor the positive actions of each other and have created a platform that censors Asian immigrants in the immigration movement. These two cultures are created blinded influences and impacts in the United States. Anti-Immigration is rhetoric and bias

Illegal immigration has been around for a very long time. Mexican illegal immigrants have dealt with coming into the United States for jobs and trying to give their children a better education since the early 1940’s but always have to deal with the fear of getting deported. Should illegal immigrant children from Mexico be allowed to stay in the United States, receive education and be allowed to stay with their families? After examining mexican illegal immigrants, it is clear that illegal immigrants are trying to give their children a better life because a majority of them do get out of poverty, their parents take jobs no one else wants to take, and the children are an important asset to the United States with the citizens being okay with them.

Roman Catholic which takes up eighty two point seven percent of the population.Pentecostal, Evangelical, and Protestant Christianity take up six point six percent. Atheist of Agnostic take up for point seven percent. Jehovah’s Witness Christianity takes up one point four percent and Other beliefs take up four point six percent of the population. The most common and most practiced religion is roman catholic. The mexican roman catholic history is divided into two parts the colonial and the postcolonial. Mexico is the largest Catholic Country in the world it has 18 Ecclesiastical Provinces and 90 dioceses, they also have over 15,700 diocesan priests and over 45,000 people

According to the ‘Pew Research Centre’s estimates, there are 5.8 million illegal Mexican Immigrants living in the US compared to 5.3 million non-Mexican illegal Immigrants. Over half of the illegal Immigrants in Us are Mexican.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) (2015) provided an overview of the Hispanic population, in which they reported the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) categorization of the population. Specifically, OMB defines Hispanics as a population which comprises of Cubans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, South and Central Americans as well as people from other Spanish cultures (CDC, 2015). According to a report compiled by the CNN Library (2015), Hispanics are the largest minority group in the United States. In fact, the size of the Hispanic group in the United States is only second to the size of the Hispanic group in Mexico. The report further explained that there were approximately 54 million Hispanic people in the United States by 2013. The number showed a 2.1% increase in the Hispanic population between 2012 and 2013 (CNN Library, 2015). The total Hispanic population in 2013 constituted about 17% of the United States total population. Gonzalez-Barrera and Lopez (2013) inferred that people of Mexican origin constituted the largest number of Hispanics in the United States. They maintained that there were approximately 33.7 million Hispanics from Mexico in the United States by 2012 (Gonzalez-Barrera & Lopez, 2013). The Mexican-Hispanics population is represented by people who are born in the United States and immigrants from Mexico.

Pew Research Center tracks the origins of unauthorized immigrants, their participation in the labor force and where in the U.S. they are settling. What we know they do In 2012, 5.9 million unauthorized immigrants from Mexico lived in the U.S., down about 1 million from 2007.Even so, Mexicans still make up a slight majority of unauthorized immigrants. At the same time, unauthorized immigration overall has leveled off in recent years.

Mexico is a Latin American country. With GDP of $1.295 trillion, the economy of Mexico ranks the 15th largest in the world. With population of 125.4 million, Mexico is a upper middle income country. The GNI per capita is $9870, which is significantly higher than the average of the Latin America and Caribbean countries (The World Bank, 2016).

Latin Americans; those coming from countries south of the United States, especially those speaking Spanish, Portuguese, or French (Dictionary.com, 2016) make up a large portion of the United States. In 2013 Cobo, L., & Cantor-Navas, J., note that Latin Americans were 52 million strong and making up 16.7% of the population further stating Hispanics were the nation 's largest ethnic or race minority with over 60%

Languages of Mexico, today the overwhelming majority of Mexicans speak Spanish. According to the CIA, Spanish is spoke by 92.7 percent of the Mexican population. About 6 percent of the population speaks Spanish as well as indigenous languages, such as Nahuatl, Mayan and other regional languages. Mexican, Indigenous words have even become common in other languages, including English. For example, coyote, tomato avocado and chocolate all originated in Nahuatl.