Family members of people deported or forced to leave during the Mexican repatriation of the 1930s have for decades urged the country to pay attention to this little known episode of history.
For much of America’s history, the idea of deporting people, never mind mass deportations, was unheard of. Prior to the end of the 19th century or so, America ...
It was the 1930s, and there were calls for mass deportations of Mexicans as the United States dealt with the economic hurdles of the Great Depression ... of the Mexican-American community in ...
The first happened during the Great Depression, when unemployment was high and many people blamed people of Mexican ancestry of taking jobs meant for Americans. Local and state police carried out ...
the mass deportation of Mexican Americans, freeing up their jobs. As the Great Depression bit, lawmakers searched for a way to reduce the pressure. (U.S. National Archives/Wikimedia Commons ...
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American policymakers worried ... completely barred Asians from entering. The Great Depression led to further anti-immigrant measures. Mexican migrants became scapegoats for the nation’s ...
What he doesn’t grasp is that the relative success of this earlier expulsion rested on a long-standing tradition of close coordination with the Mexican ... during the Great Depression, the ...
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