For many years, unfair treatment towards Mexicans and Mexican Americans has occurred in the United States. Over the years, figures like Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and Emma Tenayuca have fought for improved civil rights and better treatment for farmworkers. The textbook I read during the semester for my Chicano history class, Crucible of Struggle: A history of Mexican Americans from Colonial times to the Present Era, addresses some of the most important questions in history that Mexicans and Mexican Americans crossed. . Some of these problems from the past are still present today. Not all racial issues have been resolved and much remains to be done. I analyzed two different articles about current historical events that have connections between what is happening today and what has happened in the history of the United States of America. The first article I read, titled Border Gridlock Alien Commuters Travel Hours to US Farm Jobs, written by John Carlos Frey. , published on March 25, 2014 by NBC News, is about Norma Cortez, a farm worker who is one of tens of thousands of laborers who toil in the agricultural fields of Yuma, Arizona. His job involves packaging heads of lettuce for shipment across the United States for brands such as Dole Foods and Church Brothers. Norma commutes every day from Mexicali, Mexico, to Yuma, Arizona, which usually takes her seven hours. She has to wait a few hours to cross the border, and another two hours to get to work by bus. Every day, more than 1,000 people queue to cross the border to work in the fields, and 8,000 to 10,000 people join the queue during the day (Frey, 2014). Norma travels every day with her husband, Roberto, and another group of people on a bus. Both have a green card in the middle of the paper......haven't been edited. The repetition of racial issues remains the same. Many problems of the past can be seen in the present, but from a different perspective. We still see similar racial issues from the past still happening today. In the past, farmworkers were mistreated by receiving low pay, no health insurance or other benefits, and working in unsafe conditions, which still happens today. In the past, Mexicans and Mexican Americans were deported back to their countries, leaving their families behind and no place to live in their hometowns, something we still see today. There is much to do; human rights must be respected without any racial discrimination. Human rights for Mexicans and Mexican Americans have improved, but more needs to be done..