All over the USA we are seeing small brown Spanish speaking people. Where do they come from? Why are they here? Will they ever go home? These are a few of the questions that we should be asking if we are ever going to find a solution to the immigration problem in the USA. But we do not ask questions instead we base judgment on what we hear and see in the news. And since what sells news is the sensational, the curious and the unusual. And since most USA citizens have no personal experience outside of the US boarders. In 2011 only 37% of US citizens had passports. This means that 63% of the 307,006,550 are victims to media misinformation careless or inaccurate reporting.
This will be the focus of this book, to help spread accurate information and answer these questions. For once we have accurate information we an arrive at the solution to this unfortunate problem.
First we need to define terms: immigrant or migrant. An immigrant is basically someone who comes into a country generally with the desire to stay. A migrant is someone who moves back and forth like migrating monarch butterflies.
Next, we need to differentiate “small brown”. According to statistics taken from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2009, the breakdown by country for people illegally in the USA is as follows: Mexico 62%, El Salvador, Guatamala, Honduras, 12%, Phillipines 2%, India 2%, Korea 2%, and other 20%. The focus of this book will be on the largest number, the Mexican. However, we share a border with Mexico and their people have been migrating for hundreds if not thousands of years. The border between the US and Mexico, 1969 miles, was not determined until the Texas annex 1845, Mexican Cession 1848 and finalized with the Gadsden purchase in 1853. Before that time all of California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas were Mexican land. And according to figures given by the International Boundary and Water Commission.It is the most frequently crossed international border in the world, with about 250 million people crossing every year.
