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Summary:

Mexican-born immigrant to Dallas, Texas; North Texas DREAM Team Lobbyist. Childhood in Mexico; development of leadership skills as a child; effects of NAFTA on the Mexican economy and standards of living; thoughts on NAFTA's role in driving illegal immigration; immigration to McKinney, Texas; schooling in the U.S.; working in the U.S.; attending Collin College as an undocumented student; early activism for transfer of coursework; thoughts on lack of guidance for immigrants in the school system; attending the University of Texas at Dallas; involvement in the North Texas Dream Team; lobbying for the DREAM Act; the Texas DREAM Alliance; thoughts on identity as an American.

Author/Creator:

Malagon, Marco A., 1982-

Contributors:

Cloer, Katherine , interviewer

DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Oral history interview with Marco A. Malagon, 2012 October 2012 [by Malagon, M.A.]

Related Works:

University of North Texas oral history collection

Subjects:

Malagon, Marco A., 1982-

Immigrants — Texas — Interviews — Oral history

Foreign workers — United States — Oral history

Emigration and immigration law — United States — Oral history

Immigration enforcement — United States — Oral history

Free trade — North America — Oral history

Children — Mexico — Oral history

Undocumented immigrants — Texas — Oral history

Undocumented immigrant children — Texas — Oral history

Children of undocumented immigrants — Education — Law and legislation — Oral history

Mexican Americans — Education — Texas — Oral history

Mexican Americans — Employment — Texas

Mexican Americans — Texas — Economic conditions — Oral history

Mexican Americans — Texas — Oral history

Lobbying — United States — Oral history

Aliens — Family relationships — Texas — Oral history

Undocumented immigrant children — Government policy — United States — Oral history

Mexico — Economic conditions — 21st century — Oral history

Mexico — Social conditions — Oral history

Mexico — Foreign economic relations — United States — Oral history

Texas — Emigration and immigration — Histor — Oral history

United States — Foreign economic relations — Mexico — Oral history

Texas — Economic conditions — 21st century — Oral history

Oral history

Genres:

Oral history

General Notes:

Interview conducted in 2012 for the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project, University of North Texas Oral History Collection. Interviewer: Ketherine Cloer.

Physical Description:

56 leaves ; 29 cm

Call Numbers:

OH 1750

OCLC Numbers:

871202016