Overall, the groups of people the United States gave the label “Latino” all had different reasons and ways to become citizens. The Cubans were accommodated gladly because they were viewed as fleeing communism and, arguably, had the easiest time becoming citizens of the groups that immigrated. Mexicans fell victim to having their border fall south of them after the Mexican-American war and became citizens with the treaty of Guadalupe. Puerto Ricans became citizens without full rights under the constitution with the Jones Act of 1917 after the Spanish American war. The other Latino groups listed above came to the United States after they were forced out of their countries with violence, both political and not, and economic hardship and had a