Mexican-Americans

The Mexican Americans living in the states of California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas constitute the largest cultural minority in the Southwest. According to the 1960 census, they number three and one-half million persons. Approximately eight-five percent of these persons were born in the United States. Hence, they are not recent immigrants.

Mexican Americans, for the most part, are poor. More than one half of the rural Spanish surnamed families, or fifty-four percent, and almost one-third of the urban Spanish surnamed families, or thirty-one percent, have annual incomes of less than three thousand dollars, a figure below the poverty line.

They are frequently burdened with a high incidence of unemployment. Those who can find work are generally limited to the unskilled categories of labor. The educational attainment of the Mexican American falls substantially below that of the rest of the population in those regions.

The Mexican American's relationships with law enforcement agencies in the administration of justice is a major problem.

The United States Commission on Civil Rights investigations

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