Mexican Americans

My name is Luis, and I am a Mexican American immigrant who is living in the United States. Migrating to the United States was a very long journey for every Mexican American, including myself who wanted to come to the United States.   Do not get me wrong I love living this country but it is not always easy being a Mexican American living in the United States.  
Looking back in history in 1521 Mexico became under the colonial rule of Spain. This would last for the next 300 years. This led to no growth in commerce and industry.   In 1821 Mexico revolted against Spain and become under the rule of Porfirio Díaz. There was an increase in industrialization and growth but the people were realizing that their standard of living was not improving. Most residents could not produce enough to survive. This led to the economic depression of 1907 which as a result led to people fleeing the country and moving up north to the United States.
Mexican Americans migration started increasing in the southwest part of the United States in the nineteenth century.   I was part of this migration and left my family behind to come to the United States to make money so my children can have a better future. At this time the United States needed us they were at a high demand for cheap labor in the Southwest. By 1900 between 381,000 and 562,000 Mexican Americans populated the United States.
Following World War 1 the economic depression caused a large amount of my people to be shipped out of the United States.   This was the pattern of the “push and pull” migration for my people over the next couple of years. When it was convenient for the United States to have us in their country they wanted us here, but if they did not need us they always would try to ship us back. Another example of this was the repatriation program which returned a half a million people to Mexico some voluntarily but mostly involuntarily. Unfortunately, I was one of those people who were forced to leave involuntarily because...