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The Mexican Repatriation occurred during the 1930’s as a result of depression-related unemployed. This little known event ranks in magnitude with the Japanese-American Internment and Native American Genocide. Many forced to leave were, in fact, American citizens—some by naturalization and some by birth.
Photography by Dan MacMedan as part of a 2006 USA TODAY article on repatriation and the then current government’s obligation to formally acknowledge it. It features Mexican children in Montana before deportation.
This is obviously awful, but equating this and the American-Japanese internment with the destruction of the Native...
I hadn’t heard about it either and I’m USian. o_O Thanks to the OP for posting and Airy for reblogging - I learn...