| A | B |
| diversity | Variety |
| indigenous | Descendants of a region's first inhabitants |
| injustice | Unfair treatment of people |
| maquiladora | Border factory |
| emigrate | To move out of one country to another |
| immigrant | A person who has moved into one country from another |
| Mexico City | The capital city of Mexico |
| Mexico City | Megacity in Mexico, where more than 23 million people live |
| Spanish | The main language of the people of Mexico and Central America |
| Roman Catholic | The main religion of the people of Mexico and Central America |
| squatter | Person who settles on someone else's land without permission |
| plaza | A public square in the center of a Mexican village |
| migrant farmworker | Farmworkers who travel with the seasons and the crops to work on large farms |
| to find jobs | A maon reason rural people move from the countryside to cities |