Mexican Immigrants in United States

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Mexican Immigrants in United States

It is clear that the US is finding the constant flow of would-be

Mexican immigrants an increasing problem, as is shown by the fact that

their Border Patrol budget increased by 180% between 1993 and 1998, to

reach a total of $4.2 billion by 1999. The USA will be employing

11,000 people to guard the border by September 2002, and 17,000 by

2008. But why does America see Mexican migrants as such a problem? And

why do so many people consider it necessary to emigrate from Mexico to

the US, sometimes employing desperate measures? How has such a

situation arisen? These are questions I hope to address in this

project, in which I will use a variety of sources to try and

understand more of the causes and effects of migration between Mexico

and the USA

Reasons for Migration,(Push/Pull Factors)

It is highly unlikely that anyone would be willing to leave their home

and country to migrate somewhere else unless there were valid and

important reasons for doing so. These are called push or pull factors.

A push factor is a negative factor that encourages somebody to leave

and migrate somewhere else. A pull factor is a positive one that

encourages somebody to situate themselves in that particular place.

Mexico has many 'push' factors, whilst America attracts so many

immigrants because of its 'pull' factors; it is has excellent

opportunities, is very wealthy, has a good educational system, good

healthcare and readily-available jobs, things which Mexico cannot hope

to offer.

Push Factors

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Pull factors

High crime rates

Good job opportunities

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... job opportunities and

they generally have a better standard of living because many people

that emigrate to America send back money to their relatives in Mexico.

Bibliography

To write this project I used a variety of sources. These are the main

websites that I used:

ü www.oneworld.org/ni/issue305/maid.htm

ü burn.ucsd.edu/archives/raza/1998.01/msg00000.html

ü www.us-mex.org/borderlines/2001/bl84/bl84ak.html

ü http://www.ins.gov/graphics/aboutins/statistics/msrdec01/SWBORD.IITM

ü

www.stpetershigh.stoke.sch.uk/departments/geography/gcse%20at%20st%20peter's/

p+ptl.htm

I also used the sheets given in class with articles from various

newspapers including:

ü The Detroit News

ü The Independent

And other sheets with maps printed on them, also geography book

'Connections'.

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