1. Presented By Denise Mitchell
EX MEX BY JORGE CASTANEDA

2. The Changing Landscape of Migration
 Ex Mex widely explores the issue of immigration
and how trends have managed to trend
overtime.
 This exploration covers the complex relationship
between the United States and Mexico.
 What contributes to this complexity is the
inability for both governments to compromise
and agree.
 Because of this negligence the consequences
have increasing multiplied.

3. Figure 1.1
An Analysis of the varying destinations and current locations of Mexican immigrants.

4. Exploitation of Workers
 Jorge Castaneda discusses what appears to be an
eagerness to exploit migrant workers that seek
job opportunities in the United States.
 Their rights to
transportation, permits, housing, and set hours
of work are denied time and time again.
 Mexican immigrants are the commonly taken
advantage of for their labor.
 Yet they tolerate the
humiliation, exhaustion, fear, pain, and prejudice
in order to pursue possibility.

5. Figure 1.2
This chart examines the dominating percentages of illegal immigrants in various fields.

6. Criminalization of Immigrants or Mexicans?
 The growing flow of illegal immigration has lead to a mutual fear among
Latinos in the United States.
 This fear is due to the potential of discrimination and prejudice.
 Multiple policies have been enacted to tend to the issue of immigration.
 Yet this policies are aggressive in that they compromise the integrity of
American citizens.
 Racial profiling has been legalized through Arizona lawmaking.
 Labeling illegal immigrants as aliens leads to xenophobia and a
distancing between nations although Mexico is our neighbor.
(Interestingly enough the states we now call California and Arizona were
once regions of Mexico.)
 An arrested on entry approach to illegal immigration charges illegal
immigrants prior to deporting them.
 Are these appropriate solutions or do they have the potential to lead to
discrimination?

7. Figure 1.3
This chart notes of the deportations categorized as criminal and non criminal.

8. Immigration Reform
 Immigration reform is necessary to better
regulate the flow of immigration.
 Castaneda believes that we must take a
proactive approach in offering work
visas, and temporary worker programs.
 Border enforcement as well as bilateral
cooperation is also necessary.

9. Figure 1.4
This graph illustrates the level of importance that immigration reform holds. Urgency has
increased, but has it already become too late?