... cultural background may affect their help-seeking behaviors as well. Most Mexican Americans are characterized by sharp class and social divisions. Their small upper class controls much of the country's property and wealth while the majority of Mexicans live in poverty. In 1998 the highest 20 percent of Mexico's income earners received 58 percent of the national income. ... . Many middle-class Mexicans have lifestyles similar to those of middle class families in the United States, living in homes or apartments with modern amenities such as electricity and running water, owning one or mor...

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... position rather clear - Mexicans are valuable as a bottom of the ladder labor resource, but are a threat, and therefore should be eradicated from the country, even if it was necessary to stretch the law to do so, for they often hold well-regarded rankings of leadership. Operation Wetback was really ... conducted over a period of several years indicate that the Bracero program increased the number of illegal aliens in Texas and the rest of the country. Because of the low wages paid to legal, contracted braceros, many of them ditched their contracts to return home or to work somewhere ... ...

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