History of the United States II / Unit 10 USH2 1379 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Mexican Repatriation
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The idea
During the Depression federal and local authorities rounded up Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans and sent them to Mexico to reduce relief rolls, Digital History says.
In practice
Five thousand gathering at San Antonio's station in February nineteen thirty to leave for Mexico.
Where people slip
Digital History counts over four hundred thousand, many of them citizens by birth.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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