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Miguel Cortez,
Small Business Owner
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Along the way, he takes on all sorts of subjects, such as the perceived differences between Chicanos, Mexicans and Mexican-Americans, the meaning of the Border in theatrical terms, and racism in the streets of San Diego.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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borders has failed to reduce illegal immigration and may have contributed to a swelling of the population of undocumented workers, particularly Mexicans, between 1994 and 2000.
Nor can the US impose an economic blockade or boycott against Mexico: Every time the peso falls in relation to the US dollar, another million Mexicans stream over the border.
While opening the border to Mexican trucks and buses seeking to operate throughout the United States fulfills NAFTA obligations, the Administration also must fulfill its obligation to guarantee the highway safety of the American public.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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The category of Hispanic has thus removed the racial notion of Mexicans on the border between blackness and whiteness; as a census category and ethnoracial identity, it has come to signify a whiteness of a different color, a darker shade of pale, a preference for salsa over ketchup.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Scouting toward Jacumba, Barnard did find several hundred armed Mexicans and Indians (some Indians were still using bows and arrows) scattered among the rock formations on the Mexican side of the international border.
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Jake Farley,
Truck Driver
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American truckers are worried about losing their jobs to Mexicans under Washington's new motor freight policy while companies in Mexico are just as concerned about where they'll find the money to upgrade aging fleets to pass tougher US border inspections.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Union forces were then rushed to the Texas/Mexico border under General Phil Sheridan, who made sure that the Mexicans got all the weapons and ammunition they needed to expel the French.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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Large border cities and major resorts that cater to affluent tourists are more likely to have expensive medicines, as are huge interior Mexican cities such as Guadalajara and Mexico City.
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Thomas Owens,
Police Officer
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The Border Patrol does not respect Mexicans or people who appear to be Hispanic, and the INS focuses almost all of its immigration enforcement authority at the Mexican border.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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Currently, Mexican trucks entering the United States are restricted to an area about 20 miles from the border, in designated zones where their cargo is transferred onto a U.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Fox campaigned to open up the border, whereas the Bush administration is studying the feasibility of legalizing or regularizing the undocumented status of 3 million Mexicans.
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