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The Crisis in 21st Century

Latino Immigration
University 100
Student Group Project
Maria Martinez
Linda Menjivar
Oscar Uribe
Melissa Aquino
California State University of Northridge
9 November, 2015

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Sources
Davies, Ian. "Latino Immigration and Social Change in the United States: Toward an Ethical
Immigration Policy." Journal of Business Ethics, 88.S2 (2009): 377-391.
This research looks into the 1980s how the population of Latin people has increased overtime to
come to the U.S. Approximately 47 million Latinos currently live in the United States, and
nearly 25 percent of them are undocumented. United States presumed core values in where they
have been transformed largely by the changes wrought by immigration and ethnicity. This article
examines immigration discourse, framed in terms of fear and security, and the evolution of the
US immigration policy. Latino immigration is presented as a force that has shaped the nation's
past and continues to shape the economic, demographic, and cultural future of the United States.
This article concludes that government policy makers should encourage a more tolerant,
multicultural society by integrating Latino immigrants into the social, economic, and political
fabric of the nation. I can use this perspective to show how the United States immigration policy
and how they view Latin Americans. Also how the United States has feared and made boundaries
to where they created a border for the security. Latino Americans were viewed as a danger to the
United States because of the Latino immigration to the USA in the early twentieth century with
its associated fears of violence, criminality, to deterioration of communities, and association
with the drug trade on the southern border.
Fry, Richard and Jeffrey S. Passel. Latino Children: A Majority Are U.S.-Born Offspring of
Immigrants. Washington, D.C.: Pew Hispanic Center (May 2009).
This research of the 1980s inform the legal status of Hispanic children has changed over time. In
the 1980s the first generation of Hispanics came to be the highest of the second generation and

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the third. Meaning that first generation is foreign born who also is not a U.S citizen at birth as
was born outside of U.S soil. The researchers concluded over the years from 1980 till now have
seen the huge changes in Hispanics at the U.S. The second generation has increased and the first
generation has decreased. Second generation means they are U.S. born sons or daughters of at
least one foreign born parent. Pew Hispanic Center population projects indicate that the
generational composition of Hispanic children will change again between now and then. I can
use this perspective to provide evidence that migration in the Hispanic population in the Second
generation has increased. The researcher data gives us the analysis of the legal status of
Hispanic children.
Hanson, Gordon H. "Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States." Journal of Economic
Literature 44.4 (2006): 869-924. ProQuest. Web. 8 Nov. 2015.
This article looks into the migration from Mexico to the United States. How the increase in the
relative size of Mexico's working-age population, greater change in U.S.-Mexico relative wages,
and changes in U.S. immigration policies are all candidate explanations for increasing labor
flows from Mexico. Also, considering policies that regulate the cross-border flow of illegal
migrants. While U.S. laws authorized that authorities prevent illegal entry and punish firms that
hire unauthorized immigrants, these laws are imperfectly enforced. I can use this perspective
based on the information to prove the changes and the policies of the United States against the
migration of the immigrants. They have policies in the border lines that put high restrictions to
prevent illegal entries.
Wilson, Tamar. "Anti-immigrant Sentiment and the Problem of Reproduction/Maintenance in
Mexican Immigration to the United States." Critique of Anthropology, 20.2 (2000): 191213.

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This article looks into the growth of the militarization of the US Mexican border, the threats of
deportation to the undocumented workers. California's Proposition 187 designed to deny
undocumented workers and their non-citizen wives and children state-funded medical,
educational, and other social services. I can use this perspective to go deep into how the threats
of deportation to the undocumented workers isnt right. People work hard to provide for there
families and just want a better life.