Macario garcia biography of michael
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Marcario Garcia: The First Mexican Immigrant to Receive the Medal of Honor
On August 23, 1945, personal Sergeant Marcario Garcia was awarded the Medal of Honor, becoming the first Mexican immigrant to receive the U.S. military’s highest decoration for valor under fire.
Born in Castanos, Mexico in 1920, Garcia journeyed to the United States with his family at the age of three. Determined to build a better life in America, Garcia’s family settled in Sugarland, Texas and went to work on a ranch. Giving his all to help support his family, Garcia worked so hard that most of his childhood was spent toiling on the ranch rather than inside of a classroom.
With the United States in the midst of World War II, Garcia, who wasn’t officially an American citizen and had never risen above a grade-school level of education, enlisted as an infantryman in the U.S. Army at the age of 22 in November 1942. Feeling duty bound to give back to the country that had become his home, he would g
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I. Introduction
Professor Michael Olivas’s unexpected passing in 2022 brought forth a flood of tributes to his life and legacy. However, celebrations of his illustrious career had begun long before his death. In Law Professor and Accidental Historian: The Scholarship of Michael A. Olivas (2017), colleagues paid homage to Professor Olivas’s cutting-edge scholarship and activism in the pursuit of justice for all.
One of Professor Olivas’s lifelong projects was increasing the number of Latina/o professors. To shame some of the most prestigious lag schools in the country to hire Latina/o professors, Professor Olivas worked with the Hispanic National Bar Association to distribute what he ingeniously dubbed the “Dirty Dozen,” a list of twelve law schools without a Latina/o law professor. Although the list came under attack from lag school deans and professors, no school wanted to be on it. Combined with Professor Olivas’s work in the trenches, the list slowly but surely produced resul
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History of Mexican Americans
Mexican American history, or the history of American residents of Mexican descent, largely begins after the annexation of Northern Mexico in 1848, when the nearly 80,000 Mexican citizens of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico became U.S. citizens.[1][2] Large-scale migration increased the U.S.' Mexican population during the 1910s, as refugees fled the economic devastation and violence of Mexico's high-casualty revolution and civil war.[3][4] Until the mid-20th century, most Mexican Americans lived within a few hundred miles of the border, although some resettled along rail lines from the Southwest into the Midwest.[5]
With the border being established many Mexicans began to find more creative ways to get across. In the article Artificial Intelligence and Predicting Illegal Immigration to the USA the statistic that "more than half of undocumented immigrants in the USA enter