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The Mexican Repatriation refers to a forced return to Mexico of people of Mexican descent from the United States between 1929 and 1936. The mandate, carried out by American authorities, took place without due process. The 14th Amendment was violated.
"Raymond Rodriguez was nearly 80 when he testified before a state committee on the California repatriation. But in his voice, you can hear the pain of the boy he once was."
- Balderrama
Dr. Francisco E. Balderrama is a professor at Cal State L.A.. Balderrama’s research program focuses on the Mexican community during the early 20th century. He is co-author of Decade of Betrayal.
1. Who is considered an American and why?
A: White Americans of European descent were considered American. For two reasons, their physical complexion and their time living in the U.S.
2. What does it mean to be American? Who is an “others”?
A: It meant to be white. An other was anyone of Mexican descent or looked Mexican.
3. Why are some considered Americans and “others” not?
A: People of Mexican descent were targeted as an other partly because they are the most recent group to come to the U.S. in the early twentieth century.
"They took everybody in custody, and they were told that they could only leave with the clothes that were on their back. They could not bring any of their personal belongings, and they were placed in a jail. They were placed on trains after a week, and then they were shipped to Mexico. " - Balderrama
1. The Great Depression led to the Mexican Repatriation.
2. They were transported by train, bus or their own source.
3. Because of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, it was hard for Mexico to help the people coming.
4. The Mexican Repatriation ended when Pearl Harbor was bombed on 1941. After this, the U.S. needed workers.
Presented by:
Perla Gamez
Joceline Valdez
Kimberly Velasquez
Signboard during the Mexican Repatriation.
- Francisco E. Balderrama, Raymond Rodriguez. Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.
- Koch, Wendy (2006-04-05). "U.S. urged to apologize for 1930s deportations". USA Today. Retrieved 2010-05-12.
- A Forgotten Injustice (trailer). YouTube. November 2, 2008.
- http://web.calstatela.edu/faculty/fbalder/
- view-source:http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/05-06/bill/sen/sb_0651-0700/sb_670_bill_20051007_chaptered.html-
- President Hoover and William Dill instituted a program of deportations to provide more jobs to White Americans. "We're going to repatriate U.S. but of Mexican Descent back to their "mother". - President Hoover
- 2 millions people were repatriated.
- An estimated 1.2 million of Mexican Descent were U.S. citizens .
- Promoted in two different levels:
1. Political.
2. Industrial.
In 2006, Apology Act for Mexican American Repatriation became official. Apology Act plaque placed in Downtown L.A.