Immigration has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of the history of the United States. The economic, social and political aspects of immigration have caused quite the controversy between Americans and Hispanics. There has been increased border control enforcement in the recent years in order to "better protect America."However, as of 2006, the United States accepts more legal immigrants as permanent residents then all the other countries in the world combined." The United States has a lot of work on with this controversial topic.
The Mexican-American War is also a major historical event to take place between Americans and the Hispanics. To put the battle in a nut shell-the major causes of this war for starters was America's greed to expand their nation from "sea to shinning sea." Even if this meant starting a war; nothing was going to stand in their way of creating a bigger and better nation. The second main reason was the fight for Texas terriotory. American ended up with the bigger part of the stick in this war and came away with California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.
Sources: http://www.eoilangreo.net/herminio/culture/elalamo.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States
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