THE MEXICO OF THE OTHER SIDE - MEXICAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS IN THE UNITED-STATES

The purpose of this work is to explore the advantages and disadvantages of the Mexican immigrant workers for the economy and the political and cultural status quo of the United States. The Mexican immigrant workers pose a dilemma for the United States. On the one hand, the United States needs them for a better functioning of its economy. On the other, the Mexican immigrant workers represent a racial, cultural and political challenge to the American "establishment". For the majority of Anglo-Americans, the racial and cultural differences of the Mexicans represent a threat to society in general; the "mass arrival" of Mexican immigrants destabilizes, in the minds of the white population, the ideal "Anglo-American" society. Given the magnitude of the problem which the Mexican immigrants represent and the intense debate surrounding it, the cheap labur they represent for the economy of the United States and the unsolved conflicts this provokes, are fertile ground for the analysis of the economic, political and cultural interests competing for the degree of flexibility or the amount of policing the Mexican border should have.