Steve:Do all your friends and neighbors have the Red Cards no matter their status? In fact, probably all of us should be carrying them.T.
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.
https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas#item-4477 <https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas#item-4477>
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).
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.
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.
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