Yet it would be inconceivable in my part of the country for anybody to call that individual a Mexican. So that when the Congress has legislated. because by the turn of the century. the big question came: How could you control those orientals that have come when cheaper labor was desired to build the Transcontinental Railroad? Well. they soon got scared of the "yellow menace." So then came the enactment of the 1924 immigration law. For example. in 1911. in February. my parents. my father. actually fleeing for his life because he had been put up against a wall and was about to get shot and was saved by a woman. a woman revolutionary. the only mounted revolutionary force in that part of Durango. She saved my father because he had saved her husband and her son just a few years before from getting shot by the Federales in that city of Montenedurango.
Identified stereotypes
Fear of the "yellow menace" associated with Asian laborers.