As a result. industries attracted to border communities are usually in the lowwage category. The kinds of jobs available in the border areas are not the better jobs found elsewhere in the American economy. Moreover. border residents are often of Mexican descent--or recent immigrants from Mexico. They have suffered. and continue to suffer economic and social discriminationa vicious and evil discrimination because of their national origin. and a more subtle discrimination. but no less evilarising out of the fact that MexicanAmericans are so often poverty stricken. poorly educated. unable to speak English. and seldom able to competefor jobs and opportunities in a society dominated by Anglos. But there is another reason for the
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Border residents of Mexican descent are often poverty stricken, poorly educated, unable to speak English, and seldom able to compete for jobs.