By Democracy Now!
February 28, 2017
President Donald Trump is slated to give his first
presidential address to Congress today. Democratic lawmakers have begun giving
their tickets away to immigrants as a protest against Trump’s push to increase
deportations and to block residents from some Muslim-majority countries from
entering the United States. Well, this is not the first time people of Mexican
descent have been demonized, accused of stealing jobs, and forced to leave the
country. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, more than a million people
residing in the United States were deported to Mexico—about 60 percent of them
were U.S. citizens of Mexican descent. We speak to the preeminent scholar on
this often overlooked chapter of American history: Francisco Balderrama,
professor of American history and Chicano studies at California State
University, Los Angeles. He is co-author of Decade of Betrayal:
Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s. […]
Watch segment or read full transcript:
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/2/28/forgotten_history_in_1930s_us_deported
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