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This 13 page paper discusses various aspects of Mexican immigration situation, its impact on the U.S., the American response and effectiveness of its policies. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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that the country would collapse without them. This paper discusses some of the issues related to the immigration of Mexicans into the United States. U.S. Reactions to Increased Mexican Immigration
- Facts and Fantasies The first thing that anyone researching this question notes is that it is complex and difficult, stretches back decades, and rouses strong feelings from all
concerned. It also tends to show that Americans react like anyone else: when times are good and jobs are plentiful, few people seem to be bothered by immigration, legal or
not; when times are hard and jobs are scarce, immigrants are vilified. Times have been hard now for ordinary people for the better part of a decade and anti-immigrant feeling
runs high. One source states baldly: "U.S.-Mexican immigration policy is utter folly" (Durand and Massey, 2001, p. 28). In the past, the U.S. has reacted to the influx of Mexican
immigrants by "militarizing our southern border, penalizing employers who hire undocumented workers, barring immigrants from entitlement programs, and generally making life unpleasant for foreigners in this country" (Durand Massey, 2001,
p. 28). The aim of all these policies is to discourage immigration, but they havent worked (Durand and Massey, 2001, p. 28). Instead, they have had many unexpected and undesirable
consequences. These policies have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Mexicans and the exploitation of thousands more, while undermining the wages and working conditions of U.S. workers.
They have transformed a seasonal movement of migrant labor in three states into a settled population of immigrant families dispersed throughout the country. They have pushed half a million Mexicans
to become naturalized U.S. citizens, setting the stage for even larger migrant flows in the future, as each new citizen creates a host of entitlements for the entry of relatives.
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