#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

California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music. ↗

— Harry Dean Stanton

#culture #full #mexican #music

And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua. ↗

— Alex Cox

#crew #made #mexican #nicaragua #shot

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#great #mentioned #mexican #mexico #novels

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#jobs #lost #mexicans #mexico #million

Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#certainly #continue #continues #democracy #exporting

As for the expected boon to the Mexican economy, we have seen none of these gains, and instead we have seen NAFTA's detrimental impact on the Mexican workers. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#detrimental #economy #expected #gains #impact

Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#average #believe #lower #manufacturing #mexican

Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#encourages #government #home #improving #mexican

There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#exporting #government #illegal #illegal immigrants #immigrants