Latinos Were Some of the First Immigrants in the US
By Ignacio Torres, NBCLatino
Dr. Yadira Perez, Oral Historian from New York City’s Tenement Museum, and Dr. Jose C. Moya, historian at Barnard College, go through our country’s history of immigration and explain something many forget; Latinos were among the first immigrants in the United States. Before the English came to American in 1609, there was a Hispanic presence in the southwest, in places like Texas and New Mexico.
This article was first published in NBCLatino.
Ignacio Torres, Video/Web Producer: Graduated from University of California, Davis and The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism where he specialized in immigration reporting. Ignacio is a California native but born and raised in Jalisco, Mexico, where his parents currently reside. A foodie at heart, Ignacio is always in search of the next best taco truck. He has worked for the TODAY Show, Rock Center and has covered politics for La Opinion newspaper based in Los Angeles.
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