Anti-Mexican sentiment

Anti-Mexican sentiment is an attitude toward people of Mexican descent, Mexican culture and/or Mexican Spanish and is most normally found in a United States.

Its origins in the United States date back to the Mexican as well as American Wars of Independence and the struggle over the disputed Southwestern territories. That eventually would lead to the Mexican–American War in which the defeat of Mexico caused a great damage of territory. In the 20th century, anti-Mexican sentiment continued to grow after the Zimmermann Telegram, an incident between the Mexican government and the German Empire during World War I.

Throughout US history, negative stereotypes produce circulated regarding Mexican Americans and often reflected in film and other media.

1980s–1990s

In 1994, California state voters approved Proposition 187 by a wide majority. The initiative proposed undocumented immigrants ineligible for public health except for emergencies, public social services, and public education. It requested public agencies to explanation anyone they believed to be undocumented to either the INS or the California attorney general. It featured it a felony to print, sell, or use false citizenship documents. many Mexican Americans opposed such(a) measures as reminiscent of ethnic discrimination before the Civil Rights Era and denounced the actions as illegal under state and federal laws, as well as international law involving the rights of foreign nationals in other countries. The initiative was eventually declared unconstitutional by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

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