The Mexican Repatriation occurred during the 1930’s as a result of depression-related unemployment. Many forced to leave were, in fact, American citizens—some by naturalization and some by birth.
Photography by Dan MacMedan as part of a 2006 USA TODAY article on repatriation and the then current government’s obligation to formally acknowledge it. It features Mexican children in Montana before deportation.
“Tens of thousands, and possibly more than 400,000, Mexicans and Mexican-Americans were pressured — through raids and job denials — to leave the USA during the Depression … Many, mostly children, were U.S. citizens. “
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