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Furthermore , many of the long term Anglo-American residents believe that regardless of citizenship or " legal " status , Mexicans and Mexican Americans have no right to make claims on the community of Midtown . To assume [ that ] some " energy grid " between China-Russia-India and the Middle East is of some worry to us , with our access to our own oil , Mexican oil , South American oil , Canadian oil and the continued development of hybrid technologies , is absurd . " 65 With the beginning of the Great Depression , Mexicans , " who had been welcomed by at least a fraction of the communities in which they lived , became an unwelcome surplus in regions devastated by unemployment .... In the other , to avenge the murder of one of their number , the cowboys gathered from the country round about and fairly stormed the " Greaser " ( that is , Mexican ) village where the murder had been committed , killing four of the inhabitants . But while this argument may well appeal to European or American advocates , we cannot conceive it being made by Cubans , Filipinos , Grenadans , Panamanians , Vietnamese , Dominicans , Mexicans , or others who have felt the sting of that they regard as U.S. imperialism . For close to 30 years , Mexican trafficking organizations have been adaptable , persistent , and savvy in the ways they have met drug market dynamics . Fishing boats flying Japanese , South Korean , Mexican and American flags would launch these vessels few miles off the American coasts . According to the Department of State , Mexican personnel effectively eradicated 29,000 acres of marijuana and almost 21,000 acres of opium poppy during 1995 .