Atlas of Hispanic-American History

international recession, and high infla- tion, South American countries privatized many of their state-owned industries and unde ...

I n 1967, when the U.S. population hit a milestone 200 million, the U.S. population was 84 percent white, 11 percent black, four ...

three-quarters were born in Mexico. Meanwhile, half of all migrant farm work- ers are estimated to be unauthorized, ille- gal wo ...

one percent of workers used Social Security or disability insurance. What’s more, very few farm workers were able to take advant ...

Administration proposals also would loosen the application requirements by allowing agribusinesses to employ migrant workers alr ...

13 buckets. In 2004, pickers in Immokalee, Florida, the fastest tomato pickers had to fill between 100-150 buck- ets in order to ...

NAFTA and Illegal Immigration As discussed in the previous chapter, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which elimi ...

its agricultural programs 90 percent. Prior to NAFTA, many Mexican farmers received as much as a third of their incomes from far ...

well as equal access to federal and local government assistance programs, such as financial assistance for education, Medicaid, ...

400,000 H-5A visas would have been issued annually to “essential workers” who are nonagricultural or highly skilled employees. T ...

2006, President Bush authorized the building of such a fence. Democrats argue that the new legis- lation is impractical and poin ...

those who were fleeing the U.S.-allied right-wing governments of El Salvador and Guatemala. Many Catholic, Protestant and Jewish ...

Northeast, Florida and Illinois. The Hispanic-American population in California grew by nearly seven percent from 2000 to 2007; ...

percent of all Hispanic-Americans over the age of 18 who arrived in the United States after 2000 report that they speak English ...

lacked coverage. Back in 1992, the medi- an earnings for year-round, full-time Hispanic males was 63.1 percent that of non-Hispa ...

POLITICAL POWER Though they composed nearly 15 percent of the population in 2006, Hispanic Americans have historically been unde ...

does the Democratic Party because of the support of Cuban Americans, who usual- ly vote Republican and who are the most affluent ...

who came to national attention as secretary of energy in the Clinton administration’s second term and then went on to become gov ...

Latina members of Congress include, among others, longtime representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Cuban American from Miami, a Repu ...

For Texan Latinos, who are general- ly Democrats, the redistricting was espe- cially controversial. Arguing that the plan was un ...