ABSTRACT
Migrants from other parts of the republic settled Mexican towns along the border and then built the cities, becoming a goodly part of the countryside and creating urban cores across the region. In this part of the world, to quote Eleanor Roosevelt, we are all "fellow immigrants"—aside from the Indians, quickly displaced by Spaniards, Mexicans, and Americans alike. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 sought to keep them out by granting amnesty to those who had resided in the United States for a specified period. In 1986, it opposed the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which opened doors for residency to about 3 million undocumented aliens, half of them in California. The newspaper cites a study by the Center for Immigration Studies showing that education and medical care represent about two-thirds of the $7 billion spent each year on illegal immigrants.
