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This article explores an analogical relationship between Mexican pilgrimage and migration to the United States. Toward this end, the article acknowledges pilgrimage scholarship that treats one of two, presumably mutually, exclusive objectives: (1) The formation of a social body, unstructured and free, and (2) fulfillment of individual motivations and institutional agendas. Pilgrims involved in migration undertake both objectives to reconcile differences and achieve an understanding of the sacred. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses Mexican immigrants in the United States during the early twentieth century and focuses on the views of the U.S. Immigration Commission, also known as the Dillingham Commission. It notes that U.S. officials were more focused on European and Asian immigrants, particularly Italians and Japanese, during this period. The author explores Mexicans' exemptions from certain immigration restrictions, including quotas and literacy tests. U.S. policies and racial attitudes are explored within a colonial framework. The article also discusses several U.S. politicians on the Dillingham Commission, including senators William Paul Dillingham and Henry Cabot Lodge as well as Representative John Burnett.

Explores the interplay between ethnic protest and immigration politics that resulted in the unprecedented realignment of Mexican-American and Chicano opinion on the Mexican immigration controversy in the 1960s and 1970s. Negative Mexican-American response to President Jimmy Carter's immigration reform legislation; Factors that influenced Mexican-American attitudes.