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In 2005, the state Legislature passed the “Apology Act of the 1930s Mexican Repatriation Program,” which led to the creation of a commemorative plaque in La Placita Park in Los Angeles in 2012.
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. California must recognize historic forced ...
Mexican American workmen making adobe bricks at the Casa Verdugo, California. In the 1920s, Mexicans met the increasing demand for cheap labor on the West Coast. Mexican refugees continued to migrate to areas outside the Southwest; they were recruited to work in the steel mills of Chicago during a strike in 1919, and again in 1923. [254]
November 17 – 1929 Mexican presidential election: ... Mexican Repatriation (1929–1936) [5] Births ... August 20 – Carlos Ancira, film actor (died 1987)
People of Mexican descent, including U.S.-born citizens, 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 ...
At least 82,000 Mexicans were formally deported between 1929 and 1935 by the government. Voluntary repatriations were more common than deportations. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] In 1954, the executive branch of the U.S. government implemented Operation Wetback , a program created in response to public hysteria about immigration and immigrants from Mexico. [ 29 ]
The Revolution Trilogy (Spanish: Trilogía de la Revolución) is a series of 1930s movies about the Mexican Revolution by Fernando de Fuentes. The three movies are El prisionero trece (1933), El compadre Mendoza (1934) and Vámonos con Pancho Villa (1936). All three share a disenchanted view of the conflict, as opposed to the more common ...