By Charles F. Nunn
The kings of Spain forbade foreigners and different 'undesirables' to immigrate to Spanish the USA. They observed extraterrestrial beings as threatening imperial, non secular and mercantile protection, and it may well as a result be assumed that the Spaniards have been xenophobic and illiberal. Dr Nunn's learn exhibits that statutes inform simply a part of the tale. within the years 1700-60 a few three in keeping with cent of the foreign-born in Mexico have been non-Spaniards who had entered the colony illegally. Who have been those humans, the place did they arrive from, and what have been their explanations? In answering those questions, Dr Nunn demonstrates how unlawful immigrants usually escaped legitimate detection and the way even these recognized to the specialists have been frequently allowed to stay and make new lives for themselves. Neither Protestant nor Jew went to the stake in eighteenth-century Mexico. Harassment was once prone to come from officers looking money for an impecunious govt than from the Inquisition.
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