Mexican Americans are Americans whose original homeland is Mexico. Ten percent of the current population of United States of America is made up of people from Mexico. Most Mexican Americans are descendants of early indigenous Mexican immigrants (De Leon 41). Mexicans have been migrating into United States of America for a long time and they still migrate into the country to date. Extensive migration of Mexicans into America however started in the 1880s when a rail-road network was built in the south-western sides of America that linked America to the northern part of Mexico.
Though the rail road transformed the economy ...