Posted on 04/21/2008 6:13:33 PM PDT by ruination
SACRAMENTO - State Sen. Gil Cedillo is trying to shine some light on a shocking but little known episode in American history. He faces an uphill battle.
The Los Angeles Democrat is the author of a bill that would require public junior high and high schools to teach students about the deportation of about 2 million Latinos, including 400,000 Californians, to Mexico during the Great Depression.
Elementary schools would have the option of including information about the deportations in social science instruction.
The deportation program was started in 1929 (and ran to 1944) by the Hoover administration, supposedly as a way to get rid of illegal immigrants and open up jobs during the Depression. Most of those rounded up and sent to Mexico were American citizens or legal immigrants, critics say.
Cedillo calls it "an embarrassment to all Americans."
"Those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it," he said. "That would be another tragedy upon a tragedy. . . . The way to avoid that is through education."
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Facts, please. Were they citizens or not? That would seem to be the defining issue.
“Most of those rounded up and sent to Mexico were American citizens or legal immigrants, critics say.”
And I’m certain we can believe that statement with 100% confidence. No agendas going on in this story. Sheeesh.
"The Mexican Repatriation was a largely forced migration mainly taking place between 1929 and 1937, when an estimated 500,000[1] Mexicans and Mexican Americans, of which approximately 250,000[2] had been born in the United States, were deported or "voluntarily repatriated" to Mexico. Approximately 60% of the people deported were children born in the U.S. and others who, while of Mexican descent, were legal citizens.[3] Many of these people returned to the United States when the country experienced labor shortages during World War II.
Anchor babies?
For old times sake, perhaps we should deport 2 million illegals. It’s a start.
"OPERATION
The operation began in California and Arizona and coordinated 1,075 Border Patrol agents along with state and local police agencies to mount an aggressive crackdown, going as far as police sweeps of Mexican-American neighborhoods and random stops and ID checks of "Mexican-looking" people in a region with many Native Americans and native Hispanics.[2] 750 agents targeted agricultural areas with a goal of 1000 apprehensions a day. By the end of July, over 50,000 aliens were caught in the two states. Around 488,000 people fled the country for fear of being apprehended. By September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas, and the INS estimates that 500,000-700,000 people had left Texas voluntarily. To discourage re-entry, buses and trains took many people deep within Mexico before being set free. Tens of thousands more were put aboard two hired ships, the Emancipation and the Mercurio. The ships ferried them from Port Isabel, Texas, to Veracruz, Mexico, more than 500 miles (800 kilometers) south. some as far as 1,000 miles.
Result
Operation Wetback deported more than 130,000 Mexican nationals in the space of almost a year, although local INS officials claimed that an additional 1 million to 1.2 million had fled to Mexico. The INS estimates rested on the claim that most illegal immigrants, fearing apprehension by the government, had voluntarily repatriated themselves before and during the initiative. Proponents of increased deportations point to a multiplying effect, where each individual deported resulted in roughly nine voluntarily returning to their home country."
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After record cold weather and snow in Seattle, I want to be deported to Mazatlan. Now. Come and get me.
el Acceso Aleatorio
This was done under the sedition act because of the problems they were having with marijuana and crime directly linked to Mexicans at the time .
If they did it then , why the hell can’t we do it now !
They “voluntarily repatriated themselves”. Hmm. So all it takes is the proper motivation.
I think Cedillo is an illegal.
Cedillo is another La Raza puke.
“......deportation of about 2 million Latinos, including 400,000 Californians, to Mexico during the Great Depression.”
So we can do it. YES WE CAN.
;>)
Cedillo is a Mexican anchor baby.
Who was President for half that time?
LOL! Me too! It snowed here in Utah last week. OK, that makes two; just 1,999,998 to go!
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