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Mexican laborers were still brought into the U.S. As temporary laborers, but not as citizens. The term "illegal alien" was used for the first time at this point. In the mid-1950s, "operation wetback" deported over a million undocumented immigrants. The U.S. also "showed off its true colors" when it forced the Japanese-Americans (and these were citizens) into internment camps during World War II. The history of Mexican immigration has been one of acceptance during periods of labor need and rejection when those periods have ended.
Immigration history for Europeans has played out differently. About 200,000 European immigrants gained legal status between 1925 and 1965. Granted, slurs were also made against the Irish, Italian and Eastern European (mostly Jewish) arrivals. Though there was early resistance to such immigration, and eastern Europeans were subject to discrimination.
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Says Rodriguez about such double standards: "Let's not pretend that this hysteria is not about race, color and dehumanization. it's not even anti-immigrant or even anti-Latino/Hispanic bigotry. it's the exploitation of a deep-seated fear and loathing of Mexicans and Central Americans by shameless politicians." (417)
In 1993 the Supreme Court again ruled that states had no specific jurisdiction over immigration controls and stopped the Texas law restricting undocumented immigrants and their children from attending school or receiving medical care, Plyler v. Doe. Yet, again there had been no comprehensive ruling as to what was or was not right with regard to immigration reform, though the U.S. had challenged discrimination against mainly Mexican immigrants into the U.S. The comprehensive answers were yet to come.
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Heer 43) Likely, because of their color, they could soon work their way out of poverty and into the middle class. Says Rodriguez about such double standards: "Let's not pretend that this hysteria is not about race, color and dehumanization. it's not even anti-immigrant or even anti-Latino/Hispanic bigotry. it's the exploitation of a deep-seated fear and loathing of Mexicans and Central Americans by shameless politicians." (417)
In 1993 the Supreme Court again ruled that states had no specific jurisdiction over immigration controls and stopped the Texas law restricting undocumented immigrants and their children from attending school or receiving medical care, Plyler v. Doe. Yet, again there had been no comprehensive ruling as to what was or was not right with regard to immigration reform, though the U.S. had challenged discrimination against mainly Mexican immigrants into the U.S. The comprehensive answers were yet to come.
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