In the research he found that the Hispanics not only embraced the American culture but also contributed and enriched it. The paper gives strong evidence that point out on how Hispanics have influenced the general American culture by introducing new types and forms of art, food, music, literature and other tenets that have been widely accepted by people from all racial groups. The research focused on retrospective cultural analysis and found that there are various things which are currently heavily consumed by Americans of which in the ancient days they were only associated with the Latinos, Puerto Ricans and …show more content…
Massey, Durand and Karen (2014) affirm that the restrictive border policies reduced the number of legitimate immigrates in the country because of the high regulations strategies that included militarization of the border and institutionalization of the deportation unit. However, Massey, Durand and Karen (2014) cannot provide evidence that the general population of the Hispanics in America reduced because the figures of illegal immigrants was not quantified.
Consistent with Massey, Durand and Karen (2014), Baker and Rytina (2013) posit that the Mexican population will surpass that of African Americans because the rate of illegal Hispanic immigration continues to grow.
Over the years, numerous extant researches have asserted that the number and rate of illegal Hispanic immigration has increase hence even prompting the President Elect of the US to include building a wall on the Mexican border as one of his campaign policies (Lopez, Morin, and Taylor, 2010). Therefore, there is no doubt that the restrictive border policies not only failed to reduce the Hispanic population size but also made the matter worse by increasing a population of immigrants who cannot be traced for crime or tax