#mexicans

We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans. ↗

— Dennis Chavez

#mexicans #return #war

Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of Texas House members just last fall. You know, we've had almost 200,000 OTMs - the government categorizes OT 'other, other than Mexicans' - along the Mexican border. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#along #bipartisan #border #crisis #declared

I want all Hispanics in the Republican Party, in the Democratic Party, whether Latin Americans, Central Americans, Cubans, Mexicans, I want us to unite. ↗

— Bill Richardson

#cubans #democratic #democratic party #hispanics #i

We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far. ↗

— Vicente Fox

#betray #change #far #felt #hopes

More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them. ↗

— John Shadegg

#american citizen #assimilation #becoming #citizen #home

In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#bind #colonists #existed #i #last

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#jobs #lost #mexicans #mexico #million

Mexicans are quasi-legal. ↗

— Cheech Marin

The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#called #citizens #house #illegal #illegal immigrants