[Snidely Whiplash]

From what I can find on the subject, a million or more people of Mexican descent were forcibly deported to Mexico in the 1930s without regard to their citizenship, in order to make sure that "real Americans" would get whatever jobs were available there during the Depression. The estimates I've seen place anywhere from 50-60% of the deportees as citizens. A lot of those folks (or their kids) are still alive.

There may be a liberal spin to the documentary (I dunno, not having seen it), but it's quite historically factual that these deportations happened. Merely bringing it to light can hardly be classified as "liberal."

Deport all the illegals you want - hell, I'll even help load 'em in the vans. Start deporting citizens in the name of some bigoted crap, and we have a big problem.

Snidely

[AuntB]

I'm with you, Snidely.

It seems to be "all or nothing" with our government all too often. We need to start enforcing immigration laws...seems simple to me. We need to stop handing out Social Security to illegals. Consider the petition to reform Social Security disability.

http://www.petitiononline.com/SSDC/petition.html

[WaterDragon]

The point, Snidely, is that the PBS ultra-liberal take on the deportations was that they were done by the federal government and were horrible!

But PBS did NOT mention that those deportations were done at the orders of the most fascist/socialist president America has ever had -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, with the connivance of a Democratic-party-dominated Congress.

Hispanics, when they think about which party to vote for, should keep this bit of history in mind.

Those were U.S. citizens that FDR ran out of the country.