#mexican

More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them. ↗

— John Shadegg

#american citizen #assimilation #becoming #citizen #home

Your life depends on a random stranger who could kill you, will probably disrespect you, and will most likely pay you much less than you deserve. But even those prospects are better than the ones you used to have. This is the life of los jornaleros – the day laborers. ↗

— Gustavo Arellano

#immigration #jobs #mexican #equality

I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out. ↗

— Jessica Alba

#got #i #just #mexicans #out

Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#big #come #everyone #hats #mexicans

I can recall back in 1998, in August of that year, when we had a horrible disaster along the Mexican border in the town of Del Rio. At the time, FEMA was the shining star of the federal government. It's now perceived as many to be the dullest knife in the drawer. Right or wrong, that's the perception. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#august #back #border #del #disaster

Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of Texas House members just last fall. You know, we've had almost 200,000 OTMs - the government categorizes OT 'other, other than Mexicans' - along the Mexican border. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#along #bipartisan #border #crisis #declared

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids. ↗

— Bill Condon

#first #first of all #grew #had #just

If New Mexican voters believe the path to create American jobs is keeping taxes low, then they have an option. That's my campaign. ↗

— Heather Wilson

#american jobs #believe #campaign #create #jobs

What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next? ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#day #happen #i #i wonder #left

And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican. ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#border #carpentry #chances #course #cross