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IN Socal there are a lot more than the estimated 5 million illegals. Might be much closer to 20 million. In greater LA/Socal
http://www.laalmanac.com/immigration/im04a.php
Until recently these California immigrants from Mexico and Central America - until they came here many of these 'undocumented immigrants' were bought and sold with the land they were born on.
More recently, the Pew Research Center, estimated that, in 2016, 2.2 million unauthorized immigrants resided in California, about 6 percent of the state's entire population and 21 percent of unauthorized immigrants living in the United States.
In 2014, the Public Policy Institute of California, estimated the unauthorized immigrant population in California to be mostly from Latin American (78 percent) with a declining majority being from Mexico (52 percent). Further, about a tenth of the state's workforce was composed of unauthorized immigrants and 12.3 percent of California's K-12 school children had an unauthorized immigrant parent.
in 1829 Mexico made slavery illegal - but the very few American slaves who fled there in search of freedom discovered that the peonage system was every bit as oppressive as slavery.
In 1493 Pope Alexander VI, while granting Spain the right to colonize the New World, mandated that the indigenous people be converted to Catholicism and prohibited their enslavement. However, he added a “catch 22” by going on to say that those who did not accept Christianity or reverted to their old religion, should be punished and could be enslaved. More positively, in 1500, Queen Isabella of Spain had expressly ordered, “all the Indians of the Spaniards were to be free from slavery.” This order had no ifs or buts. When she died in 1504, her will instructed her successors to continue these policies.
https://www.mexconnect.com/articles/666-slavery-in-mexico/
Indian and Mestizo people who have been chattel for a hundred generation and been conditioned for generations to obey the boss's orders without question.
https://www.whatitmeanstobeamerican.org/ideas/how-new-mexicos-peons-became-enslaved-to-debt/
Not to obey the law, not to hold the law subordinate the the constitution as the source of government's legitimate authority but to obey the patron immediately and in all the things, without question.
eonage was especially prominent in New Mexico, where lower-class citizens often fell into debt out of sheer necessity. Sometimes a small loan from a wealthier landholder would be necessary for basic subsistence or shelter. Just as commonly, a debt originated with Roman Catholic priests, who charged exorbitant amounts of money to perform weddings, baptisms, and funerals. In order to marry one’s sweetheart, anoint a child in the church, or bury a deceased relative, a cash-poor person had no choice but to seek a loan from a person of financial means.
https://www.whatitmeanstobeamerican.org/ideas/how-new-mexicos-peons-became-enslaved-to-debt/