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The Mexican Repatriation was the repatriation, deportation, and expulsion of Mexicans and Mexican Americans from the United States during the Great Depression between 1929 and 1939. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Estimates of how many were repatriated, deported, or expelled range from 300,000 to 2 million (of which 40–60% were citizens of the United ...
Lawmakers called for California to commemorate the 1930s Mexican Repatriation, when nearly two million people of Mexican descent were deported. ... The history of the Mexican Repatriation ...
California lawmakers are considering a ... were put on trains and buses and deported to Mexico during the Great Depression. In Los Angeles, up to 75,000 were deported by train in one year ...
Race, Place, and Reform in Mexican Los Angeles: A Transnational Perspective, 1890-1940. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 9780816526338. Monroy, Douglas (1999). Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the Great Depression. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520920774. Lopez, Eduardo F. (2016).
Mexican American history, or the history of American residents of Mexican descent, largely begins after the annexation of Northern Mexico in 1848, when the nearly 80,000 Mexican citizens of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico became U.S. citizens.
In 1932, President Hoover and the State Department essentially shut down immigration during the Great Depression as immigration went from 236,000 in 1929 to 23,000 in 1933. This was accompanied by voluntary repatriation to Europe and Mexico, and coerced repatriation and deportation of between 500,000 and 2 million Mexican Americans , mostly ...
“By 1920 Mexicans dominated the valley’s harvest work and, at the time of the 1928 strike, persons of Mexican descent comprised about ninety percent of Imperial County’s labor force”. [2] While Mexican immigrants provided a much needed service for their employers, others were publicly critical of the mass influx of Mexican workers.
Indeed, between 1910 and 1930, Fresno County experienced the greatest percentage increase in its Mexican population, more than any other county in California. Asian immigration also posed a threat.