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Chapter 4 Self Quiz
Hispanic Americans and the Criminal Justice System
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A widely accepted, and ironic, explanation for this loss of land owned by Chicanos was that many Whites felt justified in taking Chicano land because of the land grabbing that some Mexican governors perpetrated against American Indians.
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A 2014 poll conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Harvard School of Public Health and NPR, showed that
Most Cuban Americans are doing well and prospering in this country
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many recent immigrants are only able to find work in the lowest paying sectors of the labor market.
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Many recent immigrants feel that the opening of U.S. relations with Cuba will have negative consequences for them
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According to a 2014 report by the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute at the University of Southern California, research showed that Latinos receive harsher treatment in arrests, pretrial proceedings and sentencing than Whites, even when they were charged with the same offense.
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The majority of undocumented or illegal immigrants are those who have expired legal visas.
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In Puerto Rico,
the per capita income is $15,200, half that of Mississippi, the poorest state in the U.S.
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All households in Puerto Rico receive food stamps.
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the country has no viable economy
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it has finally achieved a level of autonomy in that the U.S. has relinquished control over its oversight.
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