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Ellen Ochoa
Ellen Ochoa becomes hte first Hispanic woman to go to space abroad the Space Shuttle Discovery. -
NAFTA
NAFTA takes effect eliminating all tariffis bewteen Canada, Mexico and the United States. -
Prop 187
California passes prop 187 with 59 percent of the vote. -
Prop 187
Proposition 187 is ruled uncontitutuional, according to the federal government. -
Eliseo Medina
She became the first Mexican American Vice President of the Service Employee International Union. -
Discrimination
Following the terrorist attack of 9/11, harassment and police profiling increased. Which for the next five years immigrants faced discrimination. -
Hispanics
Hispanics are pronounced as the nation's largest minority group -
Minutemen
Arizonans organize a group called "Tbe Minutemen". -
Antonio Villaraigosa
The first Mexican American mayor of Los Angles -
Day Without Immigrants
Hundred of thousands of Latin immigrants participated in the Day Without Immigrants, boycotting work and school. -
freedom Tower
Was designed a National Historic Landmark. Offering national sanction relief to Cuban refugees. -
Supreme Court
Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in as the first latina in the Supreme Court Justice. -
Jan Brewer
Jan Brewer signs the toughest anti-illegal immigrant law in United States History. -
Georgia
The state of Georgia enacts its own version of Arizona's SB-1070. SB-1070- anyone stopped witthout a drivers license was handed over to immigration -
Population
Hispanics made up about 51 million people in the United States.
