The Forgotten History of Mexican and Mexican-American 'Repatriation' NPR.org
go to original September 10, 2015

Mexican and Mexican-American families wait to board Mexico-bound trains in Los Angeles on March 8, 1932. County officials arranged these mass departures as part of "repatriation campaigns," fueled by fears that Mexicans and Mexican-Americans were taking scarce jobs and government assistance during the Great Depression. (Los Angeles Public Library/Herald Examiner Collection)

With a scarcity of jobs during the Depression, more than a million people of Mexican descent were sent to Mexico. Author Francisco Balderrama estimates that 60 percent were American citizens.

Related: Mass Deportation May Sound Unlikely, But It's Happened Before (NPR.org)

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