The work addresses the hegemonic processes that have arisen between Mexican immigrants and the State in New York City in the last four decades. We describe the disorganized and spontaneous daily struggles that a group of subjects carry out in creative ways to resist, accommodate, reinterpret and crack the impositions of power in the political and economic spheres. Specifically, we address the challenge of the punishment of deportation through the re-entry of immigrants to the United States and accommodation to the power of the State by leading a life in the shadows, the different reinterpretations and the relaxation of immigration laws to access legalization, the creative forms of self-employment, robberies and sabotage in the heat of the working day and the self-inclusions in the health system and the double use of social assistance programs. The work methodology was planned in two phases. In the first one, we divided the informants into three stages -1978-1989, 1990-1999 and 2000-2014-according to their arrival times in New York City and we worked with 55 of them through structured and semi-structured interviews to Knowing their tactics would contest power relations. The second phase was raised from the technique of participant observation during the summers of 2011 to 2014 to know the subjectivities and contentions that unexpectedly appear in the development of daily life.
