One of the interesting things about the shift of policy one of the interesting things is those different operations brought more Border Patrol and concentration of technology but this observation by the head of the and Naturalization Service 1993 and she said looking at operation hold the line in el paso that brought more agents side by side by side by side on the borderline ben brought a lot to all tasso the oh pass so the idea with all these agents nobody would cross. Then was replicated in arizona then southern texas and there is a reasoning behind this operation that door is split it the it i am paraphrasing but the north American Free trade agreement at least we will have a shortterm and a median term search of a of immigration into the United States so we have to put up a more strict enforcement. She was right. Look at the post 1994 exodus coming from mexico averaging a baby 1. 500,000 maybe at one point is that 2 million farmers lost their jobs. This comes from 1996 but 2 millio
The the mountain in it is situated along the Mexican Border and it is symbolic of the many migrants have died with their attempts to cross the border into the United States without authorization or papers. And as you may know it as the media has told with the number of fatalities are increasing in their work 400 deaths with this year crossing into the United States. At cross symbolizes their crossing experiencing in the title of the book migration miracle is basically taken from the words of the migrants who described a successful journey as a miracle. Host how did the 400 die . Guest they range from being killed by smugglers to suffocating in the back of a car, asphyxiation, a drowning, in the gulf of mexico or in the canal many die in the deserts cannot reach food or water and left behind. Many here are uncertain about the journey. It is organized increasingly by multiple coyotes and is much more organized and much more it difficult for migrants to rely on a person that day may no to
San antonio was the pecan capital of the world and the pecan shelling capital of the world. The guys who owned the Big Companies had machines. They turned them off because they could get these mexicanamericans for nothing to shell the pecans in their homes. One of the things that really sort of illustrated who was where in that community at the time, a rabbi of Temple Bethel know, the rabbi before that, he was a cantankerous, radical supporter of the underdogs, and he stood up to the Mexican American economy workers. And not only did he talk to his congregation but he wrote a letter to the editor and talked about these rich ladies out in the suburbs and the fact that a member of his congregation was the largest pecan shell in the united states. With that one story, ignacio, you can sort of see all these different strands of people, hispanic, jewish, and so forth, in the play. And my family and their children, for that time they were pioneers in relations. My aunt frances, an extraordin