Differentiate why certain specific Hispanic and Latino/a groups began to immigrate to the United States
What will be an ideal response?
Suggested Response:
• Mexicans found themselves in America after Texas was annexed and the Mexican –American war ended with the U.S. gaining millions of square miles from Mexico. They later came to the Southwest as cheap labor under the Bracero Program. They continue to immigrate to the U.S. as day laborers and seasonal agricultural workers.
• Puerto Ricans are technically U.S. citizens since they are a territory. In the 1940s they began to immigrate because of the poor economy and economic hardships faced in Puerto Rico.
• Cubans came to America to escape Castro after he took over Cuba and declared it a communist nation.
• Dominicans immigration surged in the early 1980s because of the global recession that drove down sugar prices, creating a huge foreign debt and an unemployment rate of 30%.
• People from Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador usually immigrate to escape political turmoil and violence in their home country.
• Chileans immigrate because of political repression.
• Other South Americans immigrate for better jobs, higher salaries and greater opportunity.
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