Mexican Immigration Essay

Immigration from Mexico to America from the 1900s-1920s is recorded to be the highest number of Mexican immigrant and American born Mexican in the state of Texas in 20 years period. The number of Native Americans began to decrease, following the decrease of Chinese and Japanese labor work. California depended on these people for labor work, but as numbers began to decrease they needed other people to take over. Which led Railroad networks to hire more Mexicans to take over the work, also agricultural work another reason for Mexicans to flee to America, wherever crops grew, Mexicans followed the work. The second major reason beside economic instability was the political issues what caused a lot of Mexicans to immigrate, when Mexico was seized in power of dictator Porfirio Diaz, a lot of people came as refugees trying to abandon the violence and life of Mexico.

The Mexican Revolution was led by Francisco Madero, Ricardo Flores Magon, Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata, and Adelitas, foe decade to end the Dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, who had power of Mexico for over three decades. Diaz was wanted out because of him violating principles and the Mexican constitution of 1857. However, Francisco Madero who was elected by the
Rebel leader Basilio Ramos was the one behind the plan. The rebels, showed their anger by setting fires in farms, destroying buildings, rail road and other damage that they considered will show their anger. Ramos made this plan because he called for a Mexicans and other minorities which started on February 20. The plan was not taken seriously until Luis de la Rosa and Ancieta Pizana created an army of about 50 people and carried 30 raids in Texas. Which the made Euro-Americans angry which led the death of over a hundred Mexicans, in the end, U.S. admitted shooting, hanging, or beating about 300 suspected Mexicans to