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<div>Steve:</div>
<div dir="auto">Do all your friends and neighbors have the Red
Cards no matter their status? In fact, probably all of us
should be carrying them.</div>
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<p>For the most part, we operate on a don't ask, don't tell
basis. The only folks with known status to me are those who have
achieved a full green-card status after years of temporary work
stints, etc. The rest are likely under various radars. Often
there is an adult child, likely born in the USA who is
peripherally involved. My Spanglish is good enough to negotiate
lots of work and social situations but nothing as sensitive as
legal immigration status and I stay far away from those
discussions as a matter of respect. I try to telegraph that I am
an ally but don't belabor it.<br>
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<p><a href="https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas#item-4477">https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas#item-4477
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<p>I grew up with kids whose parents (more often grandparents) did
not speak English. Not because they had immigrated from MX but
because their ancestors lived in the territory which became the US
while they lived there. In the mountains Western NM, some of the
parents (born in the early 1900s) were raised in Spanish-only
households among Spanish-only social/family networks. The kids
grandparents likely were children when their families immigrated
to the area from the Rio Grande valley after the Civil War (when
the newly formed/available US Cavalry rounded up or killed the
native Apache living in the area). </p>
<p> In Southern (Douglas) AZ, many of these families had equal
representation on both sides of the border that was drawn with the
Gadsden Purchase. Some living on the MX side may have been
deported there during the 1st world war or depression when there
were attempts to displace "mexicans" from the US without due
process. May have been part of the "alien enemies" act
activities of the time. <br>
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<p>I think the Gadsden purchase included the Mesilla Valley in NM
(nod to REC) but in my case it was the region south of Tucson in
AZ.<br>
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