Research Project

My Research Project is about Illegal immigrants crossing over the border of mexico to live and work in Texas. It has an interesting affect on Jobs there. My first thoughts were about why the Mexicans crossed the border into the United States in the first place. I learned that Mexican illegal immigration started after the Mexican Revolution in 1910. People were fleeing their country and came to the United States for a job and to get away from chaos in Mexico. I also learned that most of the Mexican illegal immigrants work for less than minimum wage in agriculture construction and service oriented jobs which puts them at or below poverty level. I am interested in the topic because my family owns a farm in Texas and I've met an illegal immigrant and it made me curious.

My National History Day project is on how illegal immigrants cross over the border of Mexico to live and work in Texas and how this affects aspects of life in that state. Illegal or undocumented immigrants from Mexico are people born in Mexico that enter the United States illegally by crossing the border or by allowing their student or work visas to expire. It is hard to determine exactly how many illegal immigrants are in the United States, but it is believed that the population is between 7-20 million. In 1910 there was the Mexican Revolution. The revolution caused a lot of turmoil in the country of Mexico so thousands of people traveled north into the United States to get out of the chaos and find jobs.