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Deadline looms for some Mexican-Americans to reclaim Mexican nationality
SJ Mercury News ^ | 3/7/03 | Edwin Garcia

Posted on 03/07/2003 8:03:44 PM PST by NormsRevenge

Edited on 04/13/2004 3:30:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Some of the tens of thousands of Mexicans who were forced to renounce their nationality upon becoming U.S. citizens are scrambling to reclaim it this month at the Mexican consulates in San Jose and San Francisco.

Faced with a March 20 deadline, some of these American citizens are applying for Mexican nationality so they can obtain a Mexican passport and take advantage of certain benefits should they or their children decide to return to their birth country.


(Excerpt) Read more at bayarea.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: deadline; looms; mexican; mexicanamerican; nationality; reclaim

1 posted on 03/07/2003 8:03:44 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
To feel "Mexican" again? Just ride BART after 7 p.m. any night.
2 posted on 03/07/2003 8:07:56 PM PST by ysoitanly
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To: ysoitanly
To feel "Mexican" again.

That's just too easy. I think I'll let this one slide.

3 posted on 03/07/2003 9:37:29 PM PST by Jeff Chandler ( ;)
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