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Why immigrants come to America : braceros, indocumentados, and the migra
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Why immigrants come to America : braceros, indocumentados, and the migra

Author: Robert Joe Stout
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Few issues have provoked such national outrage since integration and opposition to the Vietnam war crested in the 1960s. Despite the clamor, the rhetoric, the accusations and the arrests, few people really understand who the undocumented immigrants are, how they get into the United States and why they keep coming. Stout explains in vivid detail why Spanish-speaking workers leave their homes--and often risk their  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Joe Stout
ISBN: 9780313348303 0313348308
OCLC Number: 166379470
Description: xi, 187 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: A place to work, a place to live -- Though hell and high water -- Mexican faces, American dreams -- Where the dollar is king -- "It's the law!" -- A pox on both your houses! -- Don't kill the cash cow.
Responsibility: Robert Joe Stout.
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Few issues have provoked such national outrage since integration and opposition to the Vietnam war crested in the 1960s. Despite the clamor, the rhetoric, the accusations and the arrests, few people really understand who the undocumented immigrants are, how they get into the United States and why they keep coming. Stout explains in vivid detail why Spanish-speaking workers leave their homes--and often risk their lives--to seek employment north of the border. The book includes hundreds of interviews and experiences he has shared with migrants, politicians, law officers and farm and sweatshop employers. More than 23 million Americans of Mexican descent live in the United States, 7 million of whom do not have valid papers. More than 90% find employment and over 60% send portions of their earnings to their families south of the border--providing nearly 70% of the incomes of thousands of towns and villages.--From publisher description.

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