( Lee Tracy was originally to appear in the film until he drunkenly urinated off the balcony into a crowd of Mexicans standing below ; Tracy's career never recovered from the incident.

However, throughout the Southwest during the first fifty years of the 20th century, Mexican Americans faced segregation, despite being legally classified as " white " ( The legal classification of all Mexicans as white was a convention originally enacted to enforce the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican American war in 1848.

Generally used as an ethnic slur, the term was originally coined and applied only to Mexicans who entered Texas by crossing the Rio Grande river, which is located at the Mexican border, presumably by swimming or wading across and getting wet in the process.

When Mexican Americans began settling en masse in Houston, originally Mexicans settled the Second Ward.

, devotion to Santa Muerte has been on the rise in the United States for the past ten years or so, mostly following the millions of Mexicans who have immigrated to the country.

During the California Gold Rush, Mexicans had immigrated in order to work in the California mines or to help build the railroads.

* Mexicans in Omaha, Nebraska

* Mexicans in Omaha, Nebraska

* Mexicans in Omaha, Nebraska

In 1843, with the publication of the work of William H. Prescott, it was adopted by most of the world, including 19th century Mexican scholars who saw it as a way to distinguish present-day Mexicans from pre-conquest Mexicans.

A biographical analysis of some 200 of its employees, classed as capitalists, managers, laborers, and general service personnel, reveals that the resulting work force included Europeans, Americans, Mexicans, and Indians.

In addition to this, job discrimination in Los Angeles forced many Mexicans to work for below-poverty level wages.

His notes on the beliefs and practices of the people he encountered were the basis of his work Anahuac: Or Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern ( 1861 ), published after his return to England.

The professor thought highly of the work but said that no one would publish a book about Mexicans.

One week after the bill was approved, Salinas proposed cross-border discussions to develop a " guestworker " program that would permit non-resident Mexicans to work legally in the United States.

In videotaped testimony, Josh Ryen said that the evening before the murders, just before the family left for the Blade barbecue, three Mexicans came to the Ryen home looking for work.

The 1823 raid marked the start of a long period of raids and counter raids lasting until 1848 as New Mexicans took Navajos captive to work as slaves, and as Navajos raided to recover their people and to obtain livestock.

Two years later, the First Presidency again instructed the Pratts to move, this time to Manassa, Colorado, and establish missionary work among Mexicans in the United States.

Although it was recorded the federal government deported 1, 268 Mexicans during this year, the government told employers “ the American government would not help any emigrant who came on their own in search of work and advised employers to send them home ” ( Aguila 214 ).

* Miguel — leader of the Mexicans who work for the Chandlers.

It was hard low-paid work, and made him sharply aware of the falsity of the myth that Mexicans are lazy.

Juventud then stated that they were " no longer there to clean toilets and work for " them " ( the " gringos ") but " they " were going to be working for " us " ( The Mexicools )", before dubbing the team " not Mexicans but Mexicools!

The Mexicans had the easiest journey, traveling by rail to the Olympic site.

" and " Remember Goliad !," only stopping a few yards from the Mexicans to open fire.

Both Cook's and Russell's lives were threatened by the Mexicans following the killing, but the company officers felt that in the end, it would serve to quiet them despite their immediate emotion.

General manager Pels even suggested that it might be wise to keep the Mexicans in suspense rather than accept their offers to sell out and move away, and try to have a few punished.

They had traveled only a short distance when they spotted five Mexicans riding along a horse-trail across the stream just ahead of them.

At a very shallow place, two Mexicans rushed into the open for a shot.

A bullet fired by one of the Mexicans hiding in a little chicken house had passed through his head, tearing a hole two-inches square on the outgoing side.

Before daylight Sunday morning, a posse of twenty-three men under the leadership of Deputy Sheriff Frank MacPherson of Catskill followed the trail to the house of Francisco Chaves, where 100 to 150 Mexicans had gathered.

the Mexicans not only refused to give them, but told the possemen if they wanted a fight they could have it.

Since the strength of the Mexicans had been underrated, too small a posse had been collected, and since the deputy had not been provided with search warrants, MacPherson and his men decided it was much wiser to withdraw.

The posse's retreat encouraged the Mexicans to be overbearing and impudent.

His friends advised that it would be only a question of time until either the Mexicans killed him by ambuscade or he would be compelled to kill them in self-defense, perpetuating the troubles.

Early the next morning, a Mexican telephoned Pels that Celso Chavez, one of the posse members, was surrounded by ten Mexicans at his father's home on the upper Vermejo.

He wisely decided that it would be foolish to create a disturbance during the coming roundup, particularly since the Mexicans were on their guard.

For referring specifically to a U. S. national and things, the words used are estadunidense ( also spelled estado-unidense ) ( United States person ), from Estados Unidos da América, and ianque ( Yankee ), but the term most often used is norte-americano, even though it could, as with its Spanish equivalent, in theory apply to Canadians, Mexicans, etc., as well.

The movie, which is influenced by Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, centers around two Mexicans who are mistaken for government inspectors from Mexico City by the corrupt mayor of a small town.

For Mexicans, " Chicano " meant having Mexican parents, but being born into U. S. soil.

The term " chicano " may have come from Mexican immigrants to the U. S. during the 1920s and 1930s, but by those originated from Chihuahua ( not the term " Chi -" hua-hua " when they came into Texas where the locals made fun of the way the Chihuahuan Mexicans, primarily indigenous rural peasants, spoke a " less common " dialect of Spanish ).

But essentially Chicanos, like some Mexicans, are American Indians who were influenced by the Spanish culture through conquest, while Latino or Hispanic refers to race / genetics.

Norteño referred to the Mexicans of Northern Mexico as opposed to Sureño, although anyone from the US is NorteAmericano, since Mexico and Latin America ( Central and South ) long identified themselves as Americanos.

The only people who identify themselves as Norteños are Mexicans from Northern Mexico, compared to Sureño or Mexicans from Southern Mexico.