Friday, April 6, 2012
Federally Sponsored Mexican Immigrants
Immigration, like I stated in my previous post, is a major thing that is occurring now. States like Texas, Arizona, California, and Florida have been major targets for immigrants. Now, according to this article, the south has become the new area to migrate to. North Carolina was spoken of specifically in this article. Once NAFTA was created, North Carolina saw a great loss in manufacturing jobs. As that occurred, North Carolina become to the leading state with immigrants from 1995 to 1999. Another interesting thing about North Carolina in the late 90s, was the fact that nearly all farmworkers were latinos, and they were importing more Mexican "guest workers" than any other state under the H2A program.
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When i read this article i was surprised to read some of the stats that were displayed. I had no idea that North Carolina was one of the leading states for Mexican migration. I also had never heard of any kind of system where Mexican immigrants had that kind of federal backing by the government.
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