Mexican History
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Mexicans have emigrated from their homeland in droves over past centuries in three major phases preceded by a small phase. The Mexicans have made their exodus in search of a better life than their homeland could offer. At first Mexicans had no interest in settling in the United States. This sentiment changed when the border between Mexico and the United States had been closed. Mexicans feared never being able to come back to where jobs are much more plentiful than in their homeland. Others were content with the American way and decided to try to become citizens. These people who stayed gathered in the Southwest and major cities like Chicago and Detroit and created thriving communities in America much like that of earlier European immigrants of the past to America. Mexicans first came to America in small numbers with the Sonoran miners and later came in huge numbers at different points in time. They all came for the same reasons, jobs. Migration of Sonoran Miners During the years of 1848 to 1956 miners from the state of Sonora Mexico emigrated to the southern mines of California...