2. “The economic necessity for Mexican
women to find jobs likewise appears to
have challenged to a degree the
traditional male-dominated Mexican
family structure.”
As families come to U.S. traditions of
Mexico are disappearing
Some of the traditions that were being
broken gave women basic rights
and freedoms that
The border culture was something that brought change to long stand
traditions but the changes were for the most good ones.
“One Mexican man who had lived in the
United States for over 25 years told
anthropologist Manuel Gamio in the 1920’s
he disliked American laws that allowed
women too many rights and made them less
subordinate to men”
3. “The Arizona's immigration reform, SB 1070, And the anti-ethnic studies law, HB 2281, attempt to streamline
undocumented migration and the erasure of La Raza and Mexican- American Studies at the Tucson unified
School District”
“The border is a dynamic space where social, cultural, economic, and a political multiplicity of paradoxical
scenarios emerge and are recycled only to reemerge again.”
The struggle of the border challenges are large and affect many people in their communities and schools.
Immigration policy is always being changed and made to look like it is all done in the name of safety of U.S.
Immigration laws and the end of ethnic
studies programs are impacting communities
all alongside the border.
4. “Research finding gathered by the IPC on
undocumented immigrants show that
immigrants are less likely to commit crimes
that native-born individuals”
“It is not educators but politicians who will
micromanage the teaching processes and say,
what, who, when, and how to teach the
children of minority groups their cultural
heritage.”
Even though many push this idea that
immigrants are criminals it has been
proven otherwise.
It is interesting that politicians are making
educational decisions that they do not
The banning of books
and ethnic study classes
are being enforced by
politicians who do not
understand what they
are removing from
schools.