#mexican

So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker. ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#anywhere #citizen #else #feel #had

Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#concern #concerning #consider #immigration #mexican

I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#i #i do #latin #mean #mexican

California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music. ↗

— Harry Dean Stanton

#culture #full #mexican #music

There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States. ↗

— Vicente Fox

#capacity #dignity #doing #doubt #even

We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#border #curtail #flow #illegal #illegal immigrants

I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#demonstrate #fortunes #i #incapable #insecure

Well, I think when you come here and wave a Mexican flag in our face in a country that's giving a lot of these people an opportunity that they've never had before, I think a lot of Americans are insulted, whether they're first-, second-, third-, fourth- or fifth-generation Americans. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#come #country #face #flag #giving

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

People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie... you know, we didn't always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day. ↗

— Faith Evans

#biggie #born #day #days #definitely