History of Hispanic and Latino Americans - Recent Immigration

Recent Immigration

Also, after of that the Southwest joined the United States in 1848, Hispanic immigration (basically Mexican migration) has been important to in this country. Mexican migration began at 1853 basically, migrating thousands of Mexicans into Southwest during the nineteenth century. Most of them emigrated legally. Emigration, however, was increasing since the twentieth century, especially since the second half of it. Most Mexicans of those people are illegal migrants. By other hand, in the second half of the nineteenth century South American groups are not recorded in the groups specific, since these censuses clustered to the groups only in the category "South American." Still, it is known that hundreds of South Americans emigrated to the U.S. during that period. In addition, Spain ceded Puerto Rico and Cuba to the United States through the Treaty of Paris in 1898. Cuba gained the independence from the United States in 1902 and Puerto Rico became a commonwealth of the United States in 1917, so that Puerto Ricans were able to emigrate to the United States more easily than any other Hispanic group, because they have American citizenship. During the second half of 19th century and the 20th century many Hispanic immigrant to United States fleet of the poverty, the guerrillas, dictatorial regimes, etc. .... So, the arrival of Fidel Castro regime in Cuba, in 1967, also increased Cuban immigration to the United States, becoming important. Most Hispanics who immigrate to the United States are Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Salvadorans and Dominicans. There are currently over a million descendants of the last three groups in the United States. Throughout the twentieth century, the Hispanic population has been characterized as having a high population growth, so in 2000 exceeded Hispanics and 35 million of people, mostly descendants of immigrants, being the called Hispanos a minority.