We are all immigrants
Mexicans in Los Angeles
celebrate their Independence
Day on 16 September 2018.
More than 11 million Mexicans
were living in the US in 2017On the edge
A Mexican family pictured at the
controversial US border ‘wall’ – in
most places actually a metal fence
looming up to seven metres high‘Manifest destiny’
James K Polk, 11th president of the United States,
pictured around 1838. His 1844 election campaign
was run on a platform of national expansion,
expressed in the idea of ‘manifest destiny’. After
his election as president he vastly extended the
country’s territory at the expense of MexicoGETTY IMAGES