Unit 6, post 1: Procopio Carabajo crossed into the U.S. from Mexico in 1900 when he was nine years old. There was no Border Patrol then. He grew up in New Mexico, voted starting in 1912, married, and raised eight children who were all U.S. citizens. But in 1937, a new federal law cut him off from New Deal benefits because he wasn't a citizen. It's unfair that the government can pass a law that excludes people who moved here before the law was even made. #Hist2110