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Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression

Repatriation Pressures, 1929–1939
  • Abraham Hoffman
1973
University of Arizona Press

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A group of Mexican nationals boarding a bus for repatriation to Mexico from the United States.
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Scared Out of the Community

In the 1930s, approximately half a million Mexicans left the United States. Many families had American-born children to whom Mexico was a foreign land.
by Abraham Hoffman via HNN on March 25, 2025
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