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Old Posted Jun 15, 2017, 6:08 AM
sadykadie2 sadykadie2 is offline
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Originally Posted by riichkay View Post
I'd never heard this story....how was this not challenged on a Constitutional basis?




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.

During the 1930s and into the 1940s, up to 2 million Mexicans and Mexican-Americans were deported or expelled from cities and towns across the U.S. and shipped to Mexico. According to some estimates, more than half of these people were U.S. citizens, born in the United States.


Interior photos on the same date:







And a lonely protester:

I would love to call this post "Everything Old is New Again"
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