Mexican Americans

Mexican Americans (Spanish: mexico-americanos or estadounidenses de origen mexicano) are Americans of full or partial Mexican descent. As of July 2013, Mexican Americans made up 10.9% of the United States' population, as 34.6 million U.S. residents identified as being of full or partial Mexican ancestry. As of July 2013, Mexican Americans comprised 64.1% of all Hispanics and Latinos in the United States.

The United States is home to the second-largest Mexican community in the world, second only to Mexico itself, and comprising more than 24% of the entire Mexican-origin population of the world. Canada is a distant third with a small Mexican Canadian population of 96,055 (0.3% of the population) as of 2011.

Over 60% of all Mexican Americans reside in the states of California and Texas. In 2012, the United States admitted 145,326 Mexican immigrants, and as of November 2014, over 1.3 million Mexicans were on the waiting list to immigrate to the United States through legal means.

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Anti-Trump UAW president backs tariffs on foreign-made cars: ‘They could bring work back in very ...

New York Post 31 Mar 2025
WASHINGTON — United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain said Sunday that President Trump’s looming 25% tariff on foreign-made cars could swiftly boost American manufacturing jobs.
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Selena’s legacy lives on in these young Latina musicians

The Los Angeles Times 31 Mar 2025
Over the years, the Mexican American singer has performed multiple Selena medleys, and ... during the Latin “boom” of the ’80s, Selena’s ascent as a Mexican American from Texas was something more novel.
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Today is 30 years since Selena's death. How to watch the movies, series about her legacy

Austin American-Statesman 31 Mar 2025
Known simply as Selena to her fans, she was one of the first Mexican-American artists to break into the mainstream music scene and was on the brink of crossing over into the English-language pop market at the time of her death.
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National Guard troops from the Inland Empire were sent to guard the border in 1916

Daily Bulletin 31 Mar 2025
As many as 80 people died during the cross-border assault and gun battle there with American soldiers ... American trains even brought supplies ordered by Mexican forces, who crossed the border to pick them up from the Southern Pacific warehouse there.
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'Imports are good — not bad': Harvard economist demolishes Trump’s flawed 'reasoning' on key policy

Alternet 31 Mar 2025
"They will help American manufacturers and national security. They will provide leverage against Mexican fentanyl and Canadian sovereignty ... American companies are able to offer better products at lower ...
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What are the most 'American' cars? How will tariffs imposed by Trump administration impact consumers? What buyers should know

The Tennessean 31 Mar 2025
"There is no vehicle that is 100% American in that regard," Drury said. For example, Nissan relies heavily on Mexican plants, exporting more than 300,000 vehicles into the U.S ... The American-Made Index ...
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Adelita Grijalva announces bid for late father’s House seat in Arizona

Roll Call 31 Mar 2025
Grijalva, a first-generation Mexican American and longtime progressive leader, served for more than 22 years in Congress, representing a liberal slice of Arizona that is centered on Tucson and runs along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Trump's promised 'Liberation Day' of tariffs is coming. Here's what it could mean for you

The Day 31 Mar 2025
It’s not good for the American economy, nor for the European, Canadian or Mexican economies.” Yet Macron said his nation would defend itself with the goal of dismantling the tariffs ... “For American citizens, Jan.
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Trump’s promised ‘Liberation Day’ of tariffs is coming. Here’s what it could mean for you

Daily Freeman 31 Mar 2025
It’s not good for the American economy, nor for the European, Canadian or Mexican economies.” Yet Macron said his nation would defend itself with the goal of dismantling the tariffs ... “For American citizens, Jan.
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Cesar Chavez and the Delano Grape Strike

The Real News Network 31 Mar 2025
As an organizer, he worked to register Mexican-Americans to vote ... In 1965, when Filipino-American farmworkers went on strike to demand higher wages for grape pickers.
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What tariffs could mean to you

The Day 31 Mar 2025
It’s not good for the American economy, nor for the European, Canadian or Mexican economies.” Yet Macron said his nation would defend itself with the goal of dismantling the tariffs ... “For American citizens, Jan.
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When is Cesar Chávez Day? Are banks, USPS closed? Why the holiday is celebrated

Austin American-Statesman 31 Mar 2025
César Chávez Day is Monday, honoring the late Mexican American civil rights activist who dedicated his life to advocating for farmworkers' rights, fair wages, and better working conditions ... Day, most American workers had the day off.
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Preservation Austin gives sneak peek at 10 historic homes on 2025 tour

Culture Map 31 Mar 2025
This house on Holly Street played an important historical role in the city's Mexican American Civil Rights Movement in the late 60s ... Mexican American Civil Rights Movement in the late 60s and 70s.
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What Selena’s murder says about our fascination with death

The Los Angeles Times 31 Mar 2025
Her dreams of success as an American pop star singing in her more native English were soon to be realized, catapulting a young Mexican American woman into a celebrity no one like her had attained ...
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