Migration has been a defining feature of the Mexico-US relationship for most of the 20 th century, but legal immigration remained low until recently. About 36 percent of 20 th century Mexican immigrants arrived in the 1990s, and 34 percent of the apprehensions of unauthorized Mexicans were in the 1990s (table 1). Over the past century, Mexican migrants were negatively selected: those who left Mexico usually had less education and fewer skills than the average Mexican, and most of the Mexicans who arrived had their first US jobs in seasonal agriculture (Martin 1993). Bilateral

Government-sanctioned recruitment of Mexican workers for US jobs has a long history. The US government approved the recruitment of Mexican workers during the First and Second World Wars to obtain additional farm and railroad workers. Mexican Bracero workers were admitted by making “exceptions” to immigration rules that otherwise would have blocked their entry. Both wartime Bracero programs were ended unilaterally by the United States, in part because US labor and civil rights groups argued that the Mexican migrants depressed wages and increased

One story that my grandma told this past weekend is that when she migrated to the United States. She probably wouldn’t of came all by her self. She came because of my mom came and the reason that my mom came was because my dad died and she wanted to forget everything bad like all the memories that she had about my dad so what she told me is that she migrated to the united states. And the way that she did it was that she had to work fo

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