ENGL 432 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Indep, United States Border Patrol, Immigration Act Of 1924
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Mexicans and indians that still occupied the new territory of the usa had to decide their citizenship status within 1 year, or be declared citizens of. Starts incentivizing people to move to mexico via money to colonize If a mexican was midly dark, they faced racial discrimination. Although the treaty says the us will allow people to become citizens, they looked fir loopholes for darker people to exclude them on the excuse that black or indian and thus not civilized. Stated that former mexicans residing in california were considered citizens even though cal. People wanted to restrict rights of citizenship to white males only and that mexicans residing in us territory had to take an oath resigning their allegiance to mexico. Nm was more of a territory than a state, so the rights of its inhabitants were very little. All this changes in hearing of the insuraly cases, and with achieving statehood in 1912.
