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In the 1930s, the Los Angeles Welfare Department decided to begin deporting medical center patients of Mexican descent. One of several patients had been a female with leprosy who was simply driven right above the edge and left in Mexicali, Mexico. Other people had tuberculosis, paralysis, mental disease or issues associated with senior years, but that didn’t stop orderlies from holding them out of medical organizations and giving them out from the country.

We were holding the “repatriation drives,” a string of casual raids that occurred round the usa through the Great Depression. Regional governments and officials deported as much as 1.8 million individuals to Mexico, based on research conducted by Joseph Dunn, a previous ca state senator. Dunn estimates around 60 % of the individuals were really americans, most of them born within the U.S. to immigrants that are first-generation. For those citizens, deportation wasn’t “repatriation”—it had been exile from their nation. 続きを読む →