Demographics,
social, and historical information
Despite
potential future
improvements such as 
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* President Vicente Fox’s Plan Pueblo Panama
(PPP), is an ambitious $20 billion dollar development project aimed at integrating Mesoamerica into the
global marketplace. Fox is more enlightened than previous
administrations of the subject of migrant communities in the US.
Reasons for continued
immigration include
* Low-intensity
warfare in conflict zones and economic isolation have dislocated indigenous
communities. Rebel groups
and Mexican Army pushed
him to leave his village,
which sympathizes with the Zapatista Army. Zapata uprisings since 1994
of National Liberation (EZLN) have placed more and more gov’t soldiers
into the area, introducing
guns into the communities “so people would kill one another”.
* Histories of communally based agricultural societies were affected by a liberalization of the Mexican
agricultural sector.
“ I could no longer bear to watch the crops of bitter oranges native to the
Yucatan rot in the orchards because there is no market for them.”
A global fall in coffee
prices affected jobs.
The tourism economy
started to ebb in the late 1990s.
* “I
crossed the border by o paying a coyote and came here to mine for gold”. Actually, many
Mayans have carved out a niche in the restaurant industry in SF, whereas other groups work as day laborers, for the
reasons that motivate most immigrant
journeys – to seek opportunities
to make a better life.
“We are up here, just trying to make money to send home to the
family.”
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Most Americans understand the history of the immigrant
struggle in the
U.S.
A U.S. citizen describes his
views of the
general immigrant experience:
* “I
don't blame them for coming, but I blame the Mexican government for not doing
a better job. People
shouldn't grow up wishing to leave their country. They are welcome as long
as they work. Here
in California, they're
the ones who pick the fruits and
harvest vegetables for low wage. Anybody else want to do it? If they didn't
do farm work who else will? …people with college degrees?
…hahaha” .
Mayans from the Yucatan
newcomers to the Bay Area sense of hope that this will improve life for their
families
* Like the 80,000 Oaxacan Misteco, many Yucatan Mayans are now forming communities
oftheir own with “hometown associations or grassroots political groups
like the Oaxacan
Indigenous Binational
Front (FIOB). This
group helps channel members earnings back to Mexico and leads to greater
cohesion among immigrant communities
in the U.S. Groups are
actually gaining political
clout with the gov’t of President Fox, more enlightened than the previous administration of the subject of
migrant communities in the US.
They help each other know how to get through the bureaucracy here, assist to prevent
bosses from taking advantage
of them and they need
others to give them a moral orientation. informal safety net/ can ‘t get used to the life style and there is no
extened family
Community Services:
* Mission
district “Western Union Outlet
free or low cost
* Mission Neighborhood Health
Clinic
* Family
Counseling Center
415-695-6955
* Huckleberry Youth
Programs
415-386-9398
* Good Samaritan (El Buen
Samaritano)
415-920-6951
* Chinatown Child Development
Center
415-392-4453
* Instituto Familiar De La Raza
415-647-4141
* ‘Horizons Unlimited
415-487-6700
* Mission
Council’ 415-864-0554
* South of
Market
415-431-6266
* South of Market Mental Health
Clinic
415-836-1700 
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U.S. CENSUS BUREAU,
“Latinos, and in particular
Mexican and Mexican
Americans are becoming one of the largest ethnic communities in the United States.
“ In 2000, 32.8
million Latinos resided in the United This is the image: States, representing 12.0
percent of the total U.S population among the Hispanic population, 66.1 percent
were of Mexican origin.”
(ref.2*)
*(2) The Hispanic Population In the United States,
Current Population Reports, by Melissa Therrien and Roberto R. Ramirez.
March 2000.)
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