In the meanwhile. they may not have. or maybe they did. realized their families were being born here to them. and some of us grew up in this twilight world in which we did not know if we were fish or fowl. but always had been impressed with the notion that we were going back. The reason is simple. and that is that my fathers roots being so deeply Imbedded in that soil. he could not find himself thinking in any other way that the historical aspect of it. because the Province of Nueva Vizcaya for several centuries was defined as that area whose southernmost limits are roughly today the State of Durango. but then. in the words of the chroniclers. extending as far north as man could walk. which means that. from a historical perspective. when the Republic of Mexico was founded after its declaration of independence from Spain. and then subsequent to that. in its war with the United States and the dismemberment of its territories. the historical focus from that point of view is very different from the one in our point of view. So that when the 1924 Immigration Act was first passedand that was the first national comprehensive Immigration and Naturalization Actand the requirement for such things as passports. for instance. it made very little dent on the Mexican border. Even up to the time of the early 1930s you could almost travel at will back and forth across the border. The only thing you would have to do would be to pay 5 cents toll to pass the private bridge. the international bridge.
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