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MIGRATIONS:
A Collection of Views on Mexican Immigration
to the United States

Primary Sources

This link contains the text of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

The Mexican Migration Project holds a collection of stories of migrant experiences and retablos depicting concerns related to migration.

In “Public Law 45, 1943,” Congress sanctioned the Bracero Program.

How Texas Treated the Braceros” is a primary source document from 1944 that describes the way migrant workers were treated in Texas.

 

 

 

Research Questions

What factors cause people to emigrate from Mexico to the United States?

What is the history of Mexican immigration to the United States?

How has emigration to the United States affected the political climate in Mexico?

How has immigration from Mexico changed politics in California?

What was the Bracero Program? How did it intend to benefit immigrant workers? How did it intend to benefit growers? What problems arose?

Should a new Bracero Program be initiated? What are the arguments for and against a new “guest worker program”?

What are conditions like for immigrant workers in California’s fields?

How does the United States benefit from immigration? What are its costs?

What would a fair U.S. immigration policy look like? What proposals have been put forward?