Immigration in the United States

Immigration in the United States
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Immigration in the United States: Annotated Bibliography
Gutiérrez, R. A. (2019). Mexican immigration to the United States. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Oxford University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.146
The United States has the highest proportion of immigrants of any country in the world. Today, more than forty million Americans were born in another country, accounting for nearly one-fifth of all migrants globally. The immigrant population is also extremely diverse, with virtually every nation represented among U.S. immigrants. According to the Gutiérrez, the history of Mexican immigration to the U.S is best defined as a movement of manual, unskilled laborers pulled by unemployment and poverty and drawn into labor markets in the U.S with higher salaries.
Typically, the majority of Mexicans have been economic migrants seeking a better life. Many people traveled to the United States during times of social turmoil, such as the Cristero Revolt (1926-1929) and the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917), to flee political and religious persecution. Others, pressed by the load of patriarchal and tradition-bound rural agricultural societies, have migrated in quest of more modern values and personal liberties.
Mexicans are now the country's single largest group of foreign-born residents in the United States. The mass immigration flow has made the Mexicans be a target of hysterical anti-immigrant sentiments, articulated as racist fears about America's ethnic transformation—which has been bundled with heightened security concerns about potential terrorist attacks since 2001. Geographic closeness, significant economic inequalities between the two nations, and readily available job opportunities have always drawn Mexican immigration northward. The movement to the U.S has been assisted by a porous border, which remains poorly demarcated, laxly, and seasonally monitored for much of the twentieth century to provide companies unrestricted access to cheap labor with minimal government oversight.
Because this migratory stream has persisted for over 150 years, there is a wealth of literature about Mexican immigrants in the U.S. The period after the U.S-Mexico War, from 1848 until roughly 1900, is the least well-documented. The historical data and literature on this era documents the consequence of American colonial power on former Mexican residents of a territory gained by the U.S—their land loss and the start of Mexican labor migration north, exacerbated by the Mexican Revolution and its aftermath.
The above reference is a primary source that was first published in 2016. The version cited was revised in 2019. The timeline makes the source relevant to the current state of affairs around immigration in the United States. The source distinguishes from others in that it is extensive and explains the history of Mexican immigration to the United States. Another important unresolved problem is the impact of the Mexican Revolution on migration and politics in Mexico and the United States, notably the tensions and labor competition that arose between ethnic Mexican American citi...