CH ST 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Acculturation, South Texas, League Of United Latin American Citizens
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Lack of sensitivity by teachers to the cultural background of their mexican students. In 1917: us congress passed us immigration law, made restrictions. Head test: every immigrant had to pay 8 dollars. Implications: prevent immigrants from coming from europe and mexico. Make an exception for mexican immigrants, to work in three industries. Nativist, racist, laws, us given quota for immigrants who come from certain countries. Used 1890 census where there was few immigrants as numbers for quota. Never applied to mexico or latin american because need for jobs in industries. Border patrol established: effort that immigration from mexico was controlled. Mexican problem: too many mexican immigrants they were taking jobs from real americans suggestion that these immigrants caused social problems (health, crime, delinquency etc) Lessons that we learned about mexican immigration: mexican immigrants have been coming for a long time, transcendentalism, contributions of mexican immigrants. Came to work, produce tremendous wealth for us.
