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The Effects of the Mexican Repatriation

What was the Mexican Repatriation?

  • Forced deportation of 2 million people of Mexican descent
  • 60% of the people who were deported were American citizens of Mexican descent (America's Forgotten History Of Mexican-American ‘Repatriation’)
  • 1929 - 1939
  • Significantly due to the Great Depression

Family History

The Mexican Government

The Deportation

  • Great-grandfather immigrated to U.S. in 1920
  • Appeared to welcome repatriates
  • Mexicans brutally and fearfully forced out of the United States
  • Mexico's government was poorly run
  • Established the Bureau of Repatriation “to handle returning of countrymen” (Valdés)
  • Acquired a good job, however was discriminated against because he was Mexican
  • Caused extreme poverty - “Tata remembered not having shoes, having lice, just being dirty, and that they would be able to bathe themselves once every week or so” (Lopez-Pollard)
  • More difficult adjusting to society
  • Were able to have a standard living in America
  • Was executed for selfish reasons

The Great Depression Pt. Two

The Great Depression

  • Experienced severe bullying and depression
  • Father passed away, mother succumbing to alcohol
  • Deportation raids, street sweeps, scare tactics, propaganda, and rumors, all played a significant role in the deportation of Mexicans
  • Homelessness, struggled to find work
  • Preferred Mexicans to leave "voluntarily"
  • Tata returned to the U.S. in 1961
  • Mexicans had issues with obtaining Welfare, and were more prone to being accused of committing crimes

Works Cited

The Later Years

The Tread Back to Mexico

  • My great-grandfathers boss encouraged them to depart in 1934 - my Tata insists they left voluntarily
  • Machine worker at Mother's Cookies
  • Traveled back on Repatriation trains
  • Married wife, Helma Lopez, and settled in Oakland, California
  • "America's Forgotten History Of Mexican-American 'Repatriation'" NPR. NPR, n.d. Web. 08 Nov. 2015. <http://www.npr.org/2015/09/10/439114563/americas-forgotten-history-of- mexican-american-repatriation>.
  • Balderrama, Francisco E., and Raymond Rodriguez. Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico, 1995. Print.
  • Lopez, Daniel. Personal Interview. 23 November 2015.
  • Lopez-Pollard, Cristina. Telephone Interview. 27 October 2015.
  • "Mexican - Moving to the Cities - Immigration...- Classroom Presentation | Teacher Resources - Library of Congress." Mexican - Moving to the Cities - Immigration...- Classroom Presentation | Teacher Resources - Library of Congress. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Nov. 2015. <http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/ presentations/immigration/mexican7.html>
  • Valdés, Dennis N. "Mexican Revolutionary Nationalism and Repatriation during the Great Depression." Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (1988): 1-23. JSTOR [JSTOR]. Web.
  • Woods, Alan. "The Mexican Revolution: Its Past, Present and Future." In Defense of Marxism. N.p., 14 July 2010. Web. <http://www.marxist.com/mexican-revolution-past-present-future.htm>.
  • deprived them of what they worked hard to acquire
  • Came to live with my family and me in 2002
  • Passed away in 2009
  • forced them into a country where they would experience extreme poverty
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