Primary Sources

Becerra, Vianey and Aime Navichoque. Mexican citizens. Personal Interview. 23 Oct. 2010. Jared interviewed two workers at the hotel he stayed at (Paradise Village, Puerto Vallarta) on their opinion of American policies and illegal immigration to the United States. Daily Evening Bulletin. "Over the Mexican Border." King County Library System. 4 Feb. 1884.http://infotrac.galegroup.com.ezproxy.kcls.org/itw/infomark/118/830/1 25961758w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3000852858&dyn=12!xrn_4_0_GT300085 2858&hst_1?sw_aep=kcls. 26 Oct. 2010. Information on Mexicans trying to jump the border to get better jobs and a new life in America. The Hawaiian Gazette. "Mexican Immigration Scheme." King County Library System. 12 May 1875. http://infotrac.galegroup.com.ezproxy.kcls.org/itw/infomark/118/830/12596 1758w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3007756136&dyn=3!xrn_1_0_GT3007756136& hst_1?sw_aep=kcls. 26 Oct. 2010. Information on the U.S. immigration system. The immigration system for U.S is in an unorganized system. We are improving our immigration system slowly. Illegal Immigration in Eastern Carolina Part 1 WITN. Hosts Christine Kennedy and Dave Jordan. WITNTV. 5 Feb. 2008. This video gave excellent clips of interviews with different people (legal/illegal immigrants), statistics, and explanations. Nalvin, Joseph G. Free-Trade Pact Wouldn't Curb Illegal Influx of Mexicans. http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19910823&slug= 1301534. 23 Aug. 1991. accessed 7 Dec. 2010. We used this article from the Seattle Times to better understand the public opinion on the topic of a free trade agreement in 1991. Even in 1991, the public opinion was that a free trade agreement would hinder the prevention of illegal Mexican immigration by loosening border security too much, and that it would not significantly boost the Mexican economy. This was three years before the free trade agreement was passed, which evolved into NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement.

"Manifests of Alien Arrivals at AJO, Lukeville, and Sonoyta (Sonoita), Arizona, Jan... http://www.archives.gov/research/microfilm/a3377.pdf. A3377, n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2010. http://www.archives.gov/research/microfilm/a3377.pdf. This primary source gave us the exact amounts of Mexican immigrants that crossed the border in the towns Lukeville and Sonoyta, Arizona. The information is from the time period of January 1919 to December 1952. It also gave me the exact amount in the city Los Ebanos, Texas. This was during the time period of December 1950 to May of 1955. "Lists of Aliens Arriving at Laredo, Texas, from July 1903 to June 1907, via the." http://www.archives.gov/research/microfilm/m2008.pdf. M-2008, n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2010. This source gave us exact numbers of amounts of Mexican immigrants crossed the border in July of 1903 to June 1907. It gave us the amounts of immigrants that crossed the border in Laredo, Texas. It also gave us information on exactly what categories you have to fit in to be legally in the U.S as a past immigrant. "Statistical and non-statistical Manifests, and Related Indexes, of Aliens Arriving at." http://www.archives.gov/research/microfilm/m2030.pdf. M-2030, n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2010. This primary source gave us an exact amount of Mexican immigrants in the cities of Andrade and Campo, California. The statistics are from the years 1910 to 1952. It also gave us over 20,000 statistical and non-statistical manifests of permanent and temporary Mexican immigrants in the ports of Andrade and Campo, California.

http://www.illegalimmigrationstatistics.org/wpcontent/uploads/2010/08/cmimg_130 32.jpg. 28 Oct. 2010. This picture of Illegal Mexican Immigrants being caught by Border Patrol agents shows what conditions illegal immigrants endure to try to get into the U.S, which is usually dirty, sooty, and poor. Scott, Samuel J, Jeff Guevin and Devan Palankandi. Mexican Immigrants, Immigration, and the Law. 27 Sept. 2007. http://www.samueljscott.com/2007/09/27/immigration- economics-and-thelaw/. accessed 28 Oct. 2010. We used a picture from this article of illegal immigrants crossing the desert to get farther into the U.S.

The Illegal Immigration Invasion. Director Byron Jost. October Sun Films. 2005. This 101-minute documentary was composed of interviews of Arizona native citizens, Chris Simcox (Founder of the Civil Homeland Defense and Founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps), and Civil Homeland Defense Volunteers. We used it to better understand the point of view of the ones who are up-andfront with the problem, and living extremely close to the border. The documentary was from a very conservative point of view, likely because those interviewed were the ones who had to deal with the downsides of illegal immigration, namely being replaced by cheap labor and property destruction.

Secondary sources
"Basic Facts about Immigration." Affirmative Action and Diversity Page. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2010. http://aad.english.ucsb.edu/basicfacts.html. This source was a great source it gave us a lot of information. The information was exactly how many undocumented Mexican immigrants where in the U.S in March, of 2006. There were exactly 11.5 to 12 million Mexican immigrants in the U.S. It also told me the percentage of the jobs that Mexican immigrants have. It was including 24% of all workers employed in farming jobs, 17% in cleaning, 36% in insulation installation, 29% in roofing and drywall installation, 27% of butchers and other food processing. All of this information is from March of 2006. "Immigration...Mexican: Introduction." American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page. N.p., 20 Apr. 2005. Web. 8 Oct. 2010. http://memory.loc.gov/learn//features/immig/mexican.html. This secondary source was great for getting information. It gave us information stating that most Mexican immigrants have come to the U.S during the 21st century. It also said that most of the reasons of people immigrating to the U.S are because of wars and depressions. An example of one of these would be the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden Purchase. This website also gave me a picture. This picture was a picture of four Mexican women and a young boy that were waiting to get into the U.S.

How to Stop Illegal Immigration. Big Think. This short, 2:35 minute video summarized the view of Bill Richardson (Governor of New Mexico) on illegal immigration. We used it to broaden our view of possible solutions for solving illegal immigration.

Byrne, John. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/04/mccain-illegal-immigrantsintentionally-causing-car-accidents/. 28 Oct. 2010. Information on John McCain trying to solve the immigration problem. The immigration problems arent getting any better for it is getting worse. "Immigration from Mexico." Center for Immigration Studies. N.p., 12 July 2001. Web. 8 Oct. 2010. http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/mexico/release.html. This website helped us get our research done and was a great secondary source. It gave us information such as that President Bush was going to state a new proposal of a guest workers program for Mexicans in the U.S. This was said to have been told to Mexican President Fox when he came to the U.S. in September of 2001. It also told me how this guest worker program would help. It said that Mexicans in the U.S would get education, welfare use, poverty and economic mobility, insurance coverage, school-age population, impact on prices and native wages, and performance of the 2nd and 3rd generations. "Labor Market Characteristics of Mexican Immigrants in the United States." Center of Immigration Studies. Robert Warren, 21 Aug. 2000. Web. 16 Oct. 2010. http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/mexico/labor.html. This was a great website that we used as a secondary source. It gave us information on the schooling of Mexican immigrants. It said that 64.7 percent of the Mexican immigrants in the U.S have no High School degree. 9.7 percent of the Mexican immigrants have some college. Then 3.3 have a bachelors degree in college and only 1.1 percent of Mexican immigrants have more than a bachelors degree. This website also gave us many graphs that stated all of the information. They also stated the percentage of the amount of Mexican immigrants in each job class. "FAIR: US Illegal Immigration Problems." FAIR: Federation for American Immigration Reform. http://www.fairus.org/site/PageNavigator/issues/illegal_immigration/. 28 Oct. 2010. General Information on Illegal Immigration Issues. This source gave us lots of information on the different facts about this issue. The facts showed different positions in the issue.

Gaffney, Frank J. Jr. The Mexican Solution. http://www.sullivancounty.com/immigration/kilgore_cantor.htm. accessed Oct. 28 2010. This is a political cartoon illustrating the possible motives of Bushs lax illegal immigration policies. It suggests that Bush created easy policies so as to get the votes of the resulting illegal alien influx. "Uneasy Neighbors: A Brief History of Mexican-U.S. Migration." Harvard Magazine May - Jun. 2007: n. pag. Uneasy Neighbors: A Brief History of Mexican-U.S. Migration. Web. 20 Oct. 2010. This magazine was a great secondary source because of all of the information. The magazine told us that the very first wave of Mexican workers happened in 1907 right after cheap Asian labor started to dry up. The U.S needed more workers that would work for cheap labor so they called on the Mexicans and they agreed. This magazine also gave us a picture of a male Mexican immigrant that is working in a strawberry field working for cheap labor.

http://granitegrok.com/pix/MexicanImmigrationLaw.jpg. This political cartoon illustrates the irony of Mexicos claims of American Immigration laws being racist or unreasonable. The irony of the situation is that Mexicos immigration laws are much stricter than the United States have ever been. http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/Senior%20Bush%20Pesos.JPG. accessed Oct. 28 2010. This is a political cartoon showing the point of view of citizens favoring tough illegal immigration laws by illustrating their perspective that Bush is doing nothing to stop illegal immigration. Historical Timeline, History of Legal and Illegal Immigration to the United States. http://immigration.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=002690. accessed 21 Oct. 2010. This internet timeline gave us a large amount of information pertaining to how illegal immigration from Mexico started, what major events have happened in the history of illegal Mexican immigration, and what has happened recently on the topic of preventing and dealing with illegal Mexican immigration.

Hawley, Chris. Activists blast Mexicos immigration law. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-05-25-mexico-migrants_N.htm. 25 May 2010. accessed 31 Oct. 2010. This website gave an excellent representation of the irony surrounding Mexicos high criticism of U.S. immigration laws, in that Mexicos immigration are much stricter than the U.S.s. The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers. http://www.fairus.org/site/News2/1582229779?page=NewsArticle&id=23190 &security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1761. accessed 20 Oct. 2010. We used this article on the Federation for American Immigration Reforms website to obtain specific numbers on the costs of illegal aliens to U.S. taxpayers. "IllegalAliens.US-Home (Undocumented immigrants is politically correct nonsense!)." http://www.illegalaliens.us/. 28 Oct. 2010. Information on real happenings on the issue of illegal immigration. This information gave me the real life experiences of people from this issue. The Bracero Program. http://www.unco.edu/cohmlp/pdfs/Bracero_Program_PowerPoint.pdf. accessed 13 Nov. 2010. We used this online PowerPoint for a picture of a racist sign in Texas, which gave us the concept of American dissatisfaction with the Bracero Program. It also helped us understand how the Bracero program worked and what the conditions of the Braceros were. Deported Immigrants Come Back to the United States. http://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/deported-immigrants.html. accessed 19 Oct. 2010. This article confirmed what was said in The Illegal Immigration Invasion about the ineffectiveness of deportation, and that deported illegal aliens come back to try and return to the United States again and again until they succeed. Illegal Immigration from Mexico. http://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/illegalimmigration-from-mexico.html. accessed 19 Oct. 2010. We used this article to find some specific numbers on the poverty levels in Mexico and to better understand why people illegally emigrate to the U.S. from Mexico.

Where are immigrants coming from? http://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/immigrants-coming-from.html. accessed 20 Oct. 2010. We used this article to show that Mexicans are not the only illegal immigrants by making a pie graph using specific numbers we found in this article. The article had numbers of the total amount of illegal immigrants and where they are from, which we converted into percentages and entered into Microsoft Excel to make a graph. Ilegal Immigration 101. Reprter Juan Carlos Lpez. Writer Thom Patterson. Producers Jill Cox-Cordoba and Nick Scott. Designer Alberto Mier. Sources: PEW Hispanic Center, CNN Opinion Research Corporation, Americans for Legal Immigration. CNN. 27 Oct. 2010. This short newscast on CNN summarized the basics of the illegal immigration controversy and gave some basic statistics on the illegal immigration problem. Immigration, Today's. "Mexican Immigration | Today's Immigration." Today's Immigration. N.p., 5 Nov. 2009. Web. 8 Oct. 2010. http://todaysimmigration.com/2009/11/mexican-immigration/. This website was a great secondary source and helped a lot. This website gave us a picture of the white house with a Do Not Enter sign. In the caption it stated that this picture was taken during a meeting that the Mexican president and the U.S president were discussing the problems of Mexican immigration. "Migration Information Source - Mexican Immigration to the US: The Latest Estimates." Migration Information Source. http://www.migrationinformation.org/usfocus/display.cfm?ID=208. 28 Oct. 2010. Information on Mexicans immigrating to the U.S. This information gave us information on the major problems of Mexicans trying to immigrate to the U.S. "Mexican Border Crossing Records." National Archives and Records Administration. N.p., 11 Jan. 2010. Web. 28 Oct. 2010. http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/immigration/border-mexico.html#az. This website gave us information such as all of the ports in the U.S that Mexicans can cross to get into the U.S. An example of this would be Ajo, Arizona where over 6,400 Mexican immigrants crossed this port during the years of 1919 to 1952. This website also states all of the forms that each Mexican immigrant needs to fill out and turn in to become an American citizen.

"Immigration ." News Batch Summaries. http://www.newsbatch.com/immigration.htm. 27 Oct. 2010. Lots of Information on all the issues on Mexican immigration. This information gave me lots of information on this issue. "Millions of Mexican Illegal Aliens Endanger U.S. Security." NewsMax.com: America's News Page - News Archives. http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/8/6/143102.shtml. 28 Oct. 2010. Information on Mexicans endangering the U.S. This information showed us the dangers of Mexicans can do to the U.S. ECON 312: Economics of Poverty. Ohio University. http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~paxton/312/econ312.html. accessed 20 Oct. 2010. We used a picture on this webpage of the poor housing of some poverty-stricken cities in Mexico. Olivo, Antonio. Immigration reform: 2010 could see overhaul. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-12-08/news/chi-immigrationcharticledec08_1_immigration-reform-rigo-padilla-border-enforcement. 8 Dec. 2009. accessed 21 Oct. 2010. This article from the Chicago Tribune discussed the possibility of immigration reform in Obamas presidency, particularly in 2010. We used it for the current part of our documentary. Passel, Jeffrey. "Migration Information Source - Mexican Immigration to the US: The Latest Estimates." Migration Information Source. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Oct. 2010. http://www.migrationinformation.org/usfocus/display.cfm?ID=208. This website was a great source for our group. It gave us information such as exactly how many people are living in the U.S in 2002 that are illegally in the U.S. That number was around 5.3 million Mexican immigrants in the U.S. This website also gave us a graph that compares the amount of Mexican immigrants in the U.S to other country that have immigrants in the states. Mexicans are the most undocumented race that is in the U.S right now compared to countries like Asia, Canada, Europe, and Africa.

"BEYOND THE BORDER - Immigration Issues | PBS." PBS. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Oct. 2010. http://www.pbs.org/itvs/beyondtheborder/immigration.html. This source gave us lots of information. It gave us the exact number of Mexican immigrants that are born in the U.S and exactly how many of them are undocumented. It also gave us a picture of two men looking through a fence the Mexican and U.S border to see if they could cross without getting caught. The picture was taken in Tijuana, Mexico, in the year of 1997. Schmidt, Bob. "Mexicos economy depends upon illegal Mexican immigrants in the US by Bob Schmidt - Helium." Helium - Where Knowledge Rules. http://www.helium.com/items/1886031-mexico-interest-in-illegalimmigration-into-usa. 28 Oct. 2010. Information on Mexicans using the U.S as a resource for Mexico to have a better economy. Solache, Sergio, and USA TODAY. "Activists blast Mexico's immigration law USATODAY.com." News, Travel, Weather, Entertainment, Sports, Technology, U.S. & World - USATODAY.com. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-05-25-mexico-migrants_N.htm. 28 Oct. 2010. Good Information on Arizona's laws and what they are trying to do against illegal immigration. Solis, Dianne. Dallas Morning News. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/090 210dnmetimmigstudy.af79582c.html. 28 Oct. 2010. Information on Texas having Mexican immigration issues. "Illegal Immigration from Mexico." United States Immigration: Green Card, Visas and U.S. Citizenship. http://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/illegal-immigration-from-mexico.html. 27 Oct. 2010. General Information of the Mexican immigration issues.

Verea, Monica. "World Press Review - Mexico - Immigration." Worldpress.org - World News From World Newspapers. Version 49. World Press Review, n.d. Web. 18 Oct. 2010. http://www.worldpress.org/americas/0402voicesmexico.htm. This website was a great secondary source because of all of the information it gave us. It told us exactly how many border patrol agents there were for the northern border and the southern border. There were 9,000 border patrol agents on the southern border and only 340 border patrol agents on the northern border. This website also gave us a picture of members of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform holding up signs stating that they wanted to stop the immigration problems. "Facts on Mexican Immigration." Western Voices World News. N.p., 16 Dec. 2007. Web. 9 Oct. 2010. http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2667. This was a good website that we used as a secondary source. It gave us information saying that the Mexican president and the U.S president promised to start working together to solve the immigration problem. The website also told us that Mexico was going to be starting a new guest worker program for Mexicans so that they can get jobs. This website also gave us a picture of people from the U.S holding up signs stating "This is our continent not yours!" White, Deborah. "US Illegal Immigration Explained - Profits and Poverty, Social Security and Starvation." Liberal & Progressive Politics & Perspectives. http://usliberals.about.com/od/immigration/a/IllegalImmi.htm. 28 Oct. 2010. Information on illegal immigration in general. The illegal information is amazing for this site. We got a lot of information from this site about the major discussion of illegal immigration. "Presence of Illegal Mexicans." Word Press. http://www.m3report.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/presence-of-illegalmexicans-grows-in-the-u-s/ . 28 Oct. 2010. Information on the growing of the illegal Mexicans. Illegal immigrants from Mexico has increased and hasnt stopped over the years.