Senator pushes school course on mass 1930s deportations

AP via San Jose Mercury News ^ | 04/21/2008 | Steve Lawrence

[fieldmarshaldj]

Let’s try 20 million for a start. We wouldn’t even notice 2 million.

[calcowgirl]

Related threads. It looks like Gil Cedillo is picking up where Joe Dunn left off.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549052/posts
CA: Mass eviction to Mexico in 1930s spurs apology
Sacramento Bee ^ | December 28, 2005 | Peter Hecht
Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 7:32:57 PM by calcowgirl

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1486323/posts
State reparations bill for Latinos advances
The Mercury News ^ | 9/17/05
Posted on Saturday, September 17, 2005 6:02:05 AM by Jim_Curtis

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1471469/posts
CA: Immigrants sent home - 1932
Herald-Examiner (archives) ^ | 1/15/1932
Posted on 08/26/2005 1:26:39 PM PDT by BurbankKarl

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1411334/posts
CA: Mexican reparation bills pass in Senate and committee
Bakersfield Californian ^ | 5/26/05 | AP
Posted on 05/26/2005 6:56:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1403814/posts
CA: Lawmaker trying again to address 1930’s deportations [to Mexico]
AP - San Luis Obispo Tribune ^ | May. 15, 2005 | STEVE LAWRENCE
Posted on Sunday, May 15, 2005 7:15:20 PM by calcowgirl

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1213088/posts
Deportation victims seek redress for Depression-era wrongs
Associated Press ^ | Sep. 11, 2004 | BEN FOX
Posted on Saturday, September 11, 2004 7:08:35 AM by Dubya

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/954941/posts
Hispanics sue over forced deportations
WND ^ | 7/30/03 | Jon Dougherty
Posted on Tuesday, July 29, 2003 10:44:25 PM by Tumbleweed_Connection

[Defiant]

So it can be done. Thanks for this teaching moment.

[sailor4321]

I agree! Just shows that mass deportations are in fact a practical solution! Let’s get on with it!

[HiJinx]

Deportation Ping!

It wasn’t the first deportation (Arizona at the turn of the century) nor will it, hopefully, be the last.

[HiJinx]

I want to be deported to Mazatlan

Not me. I'm about to head down to the Naco BP Station - I'm going to claim to be an illegal from Tahiti.

[ruination]

Thanks for the links. I hadn’t even heard of that movement before.

[calcowgirl]

I did some digging on the first thread I posted in 2005. It seems to be based on the book referenced in that thread, written by a teacher at L.A. City College (Balderrama). I think there are a couple more threads, but they seem not to be keyworded (Joe Dunn, Repatriation, MexicanRepatriation, etc).

This little tidbit was one of the best little facts they don't want you to hear:

The repatriation of the Mexican families, which had been cared for by the county welfare departments, was directed by the departments and officials of the Mexican government.

And then there are the proponents of the movement:

The Story of Los Repatriados from losrepatriados.org

[dennisw]

Facts, please. Were they citizens or not? That would seem to be the defining issue.
__________
Total BS. Plus Mexicans didn’t legally immigrate back then except in very small numbers. They we’re not allowed to. This nation emphasized immigration from Europe

Probably some anchor babies were booted when their illegal alien parents got the boot and took ‘em back to Mexico

No nation has a right to swamp it’s neighbor with its unwanted citizens so-— screw ‘em!

[dennisw]

What really went on IMHO——>>>

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/954941/posts

“As I understand it, most of the U.S. citizens who were, indeed, removed from the country were U.S.-born children of illegal aliens whose parents chose to take them back to Mexico rather than leave them with relatives in the U.S.,” said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies.

“Essentially, the proponents of this idea want amnesty for any illegal alien who has a child born in the United States,” he told WorldNetDaily. “Of course, this only strengthens the arguments of those who want to change current policy and deny U.S. citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens.”

[dalereed]

“Most of those rounded up and sent to Mexico were American citizens or legal immigrants, critics say”

BS!!!!

They were illegals.

[B4Ranch]

Hoover

[AuntB]

Gil is an embarrassment !

I wonder if he’d be interested in a class that taught that my Cherokee relatives were constantly harrassed and ran out of Texas by Mexicans? Or how about all the Mexicans who murder US citizens EVERY day? No, he doesn’t want to talk about any of that.

[AuntB]

“Coursework might also include asking the students how many of those poor, deported Mexicans returned to be part of the Zoot Suit Riots because they wanted to drink and hang out instead of participating in the draft during World War II. “

Thanks for bringing that up, few people know about that.

[AuntB]

Getting rid of the jackpot baby bonus of ciitzenship would probably be the best activity we could indulge in. The Irish recently did it, so can we.

[AuntB]

Here’s another California immigration article.....barf bag required....

Immigrant Bashing Trumps Fiscal Responsibility for California Republicans

By Robert Cruickshank

Mimi Walters appears to be running one of the wingnuttiest campaigns in California history in her bid to get elected to the State Senate. Last week we told you of her proud affiliation with the Howard Jarvis Association at the expense of California schools. Now she is touting her anti-immigrant credentials, even at the cost of fiscal responsibility on the state budget.

Republicans who have made immigration a campaign centerpiece have fared pretty poorly at the ballot box. So while that might suggest silence while California Republicans prepare another immigration-focused campaign, my respect for common sense and human rights forces me to speak up.

Mimi has sent out two pieces of mail to her constituents in recent days playing up her anti-immigrant stance. In a glossy mailer she not only lists her support for various immigrant-bashing measures such as cutting off social services and forbidding something like the DREAM Act - but she also engages in an overtly racist attack on Latinos.

The mailer includes an image from the 2006 immigrant rights’ protests of a Latino holding a sign reading - in English - “Today March, Tomorrow Vote.” The caption to the photo reads “Illegal aliens are demanding more and more rights. Even the right to vote in our elections!” even though there’s no evidence to suggest the protester was an undocumented immigrant.

The other piece of mail was a letter claiming that “it has been estimated illegal aliens cost California taxpayers $10 billion every year.” Not only does she provide no supporting evidence for this extraordinary claim, it flies in the face of evidence to the contrary. Undocumented immigrants contribute at least $9 billion to Social Security, and they also pay numerous state and local taxes, such as sales taxes, gas taxes, excise taxes, and (indirectly) property taxes.

The irony of Mimi Walters’ immigrant-bashing plan is that it seeks to drive taxpaying Californians either underground or out of the state entirely, right at the moment when we need all the tax revenue we can get. It’s an inhuman, reckless plan, but then what else can one expect from one of the most far-right members of the Yacht Party?

Robert Cruickshank is a historian, activist, and teacher living in Monterey. He is a contributing editor at Calitics.com and works for the Courage Campaign, in addition to teaching political science at Monterey Peninsula College. Currently he is completing his Ph.D. dissertation in US history, on progressive politics in San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s. A native Californian, he was raised in Orange County and educated at UC Berkeley.

http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2008/04/immigrant_bashi_2.html

[calcowgirl]

Robert Cruickshank is a historian, activist, and teacher living in Monterey.

Historian, doubtful. What a shame they let people like this teach.
"Anti-immigrant credentials," "Immigrant bashing" -- give me a break!

[sig226]

I only know about it because I was asked to play the part of Speedy Valenti for a summer stock performance of Wonderful Town. They gave me a red Zoot Suit to run around in and one day I looked up Zoot Suit in the encyclopedia to find out more about it. There were the riots, with pictures, and recommendations for further reading.

This was in the early 1980s and pc did not yet exist. I've no doubt that encyclopedia has since been burned by academia since it failed to portray white Christians as satanic.

[bt_dooftlook]

Embarassment? Isn’t Cedillo the senator that proposed a bill to prevent police from impounding the unregistered cars of illegals caught driving unlicensed and uninsured 2-3 years ago? IIRC, he thought it was unfair and prevented them from getting to their jobs. Fortunately, when citizens found out that they were to be treated like second-class citizens in their own country, the bill was killed. Still, Cedillo should be first against the wall when...