Illegal Immigration

A New History of Old Texas

Brandon Seale

Arts, Cabeza De Vaca, The Alamo, Battle Of Medina, San Antonio Missions, Texas, Mexico, Gutierrez-magee, Education, Comanches, Apaches, Society & Culture, San Antonio, Courses, Philosophy, History

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🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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In 1830, Mexican Centralists outlawed future Anglo immigration to Texas and walked back the freedoms recognized by the 1824 Federalist Constitution. San Antonians - who had long been the loudest advocates for both immigration and Federalism - responded with a bold defense of their new neighbors and an even bolder threat to break away if Centralists wouldn't respect their hard-won rights. Selected Bibliography Alessio Robles, Vito. Coahuila y Texas en la época colonial (1978). De La...

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0:00.0	Welcome to a new history of old San Antonio.
0:13.3	Episode 14, illegal immigration.
0:15.9	I'm Brandon Seale.
0:19.9	I'm a city of San Antonio. Tonight I'm looking at your love. General Manuel de Mierry
0:25.3	General Manuel de Mierry Tehran was an unhappy man
0:31.0	Three years before, in 1829, he had warned the Mexican government
0:35.2	what would happen in Texas in a report from his previous year's inspection tour.
0:39.0	In 1828, he had been appointed to lead a boundary commission to Mexico's northeastern border,
0:43.5	charged by the new Mexican government with studying Texas and its prospects for development.
0:47.7	On their way to the Texas-Louisiana border, however, they found the resources of the state already being actively developed,
0:53.2	albeit not by Mexican
0:54.2	citizens.
0:55.4	Thousands of Anglo-American immigrants had swarmed across the unguarded Sabine River.
0:59.6	Some had come under colonization contracts granted to men like Stephen F. Austin.
1:03.3	Many more, however, had come illegally and squatted on the first-degreeable piece of real
1:06.9	estate that they saw. Many were industrious, some weren't, and some were frankly just
1:12.0	debtors or criminals on the run from the law, as Mieri Terran was quick to observe. These new
1:16.9	immigrants might be prospering and they might be populating the long empty expanses of Texas, but they
1:21.3	seem to have no real loyalty to the Mexican state. And most all of them disregarded the conditions
1:25.6	which the Mexican government had placed on new immigrants,
1:28.0	namely that they learn to speak Spanish, that they become Catholic, and that they emancipate their slaves.
1:33.1	These little Anglo enclaves in East Texas were becoming hotbeds of political intrigue,
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