A Story on the Mexican Repatriation During the Great Depression

History.net has a story titled “Immigrants: The Last Time America Sent Her Own Packing Fueled by the Great Depression, an anti-immigrant frenzy engulfed hundreds of thousands of legal American citizens in a drive to ‘repatriate’ Mexicans to their homeland,” by Steve Boisson.  Click here for the full story.   It truly is amazing that so much has been written on this topic in the last year or two, which has remained invisible for so long.  If Congress passes a pending bill sponsored by Rep. Hilda Solis (D-California) that would create a comission to more fully investigate this history, we would have an even better idea of what happened during what Francisco Balderrama has aptly called the Decade of Betrayal.  For a recent law review article on the Mexican repatriation and its parallels to the modern “war on terror,” click here.

KJ