To clarify the term Hispanic, it is a linguistic-ethnic designation and can be designated to any race. Hispanics in the United States are a diverse group including individuals of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and/or Cuban origins and those of Central and/or South American origins. (2000 Census) As a group, Hispanic Americans represent a mixture of several ethnic backgrounds including: European, American Indian, and African. The government considers Hispanic an ethnicity, not a race, so people of Hispanic ethnicity can be of any race. This term was coined during the Nixon administration in the late 1970s.

The two main reasons for migration of Hispanics to the U.S. are economic and political. Economic reasons being the extreme poverty of their native countries and political reasons usually referring to internal turmoil forcing citizens to seek refuge elsewhere. During the late 1970's both my father and mother migrated from centra

Louis Kincannon, director of the Census Bureau commented, “ It is part of the continued growing diversity of this country which strengthens us not only politically but economically.” Surprisingly the rise of different minorities has been look upon with a positive outlook, yet you will always have those with negative views. Many of the major cities in the United States recognize that the amount of Hispanic students entering the school system has increased in the 1990s, this being a result to more parents taking advantage of the public schools available to immigrants.

it is always a challenge to move to a completely different place, but can you imagine living in a country that does not speak your language, and being afraid to learn theirs, fearing you will be caught by the authorities and deported. That is one of the reasons why hispanics live in close quarters. In an article written by Justin O’Brien states “Over the years, it has always shown that Hispanics live in among each other in large groups, mainly inhabiting major cities. But over the past couple of years Hispanics have slowly, yet noticeably moved into the suburbs and are slowly migrating into rural areas in the U.S.” It isn't a big surprise to know the top eight states that account for the heaviest concentration of the foreign-born population. They are California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey, Nevada, Arizona and Illinois. Once it was that Hispanics were very family oriented, but with the culture change and adaptation to American culture, the differences of Hispanics living in close quarters has now extended all across the U.S.

As if it wasn't enough the majority of the hispanic community migrated to the united states due to poverty and political reasons, it is the unfortunate repeated tragedy that many of the hispanic community had to undergo extremely outrageous transportation methods used to migrate into the united stqa

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