Experts compare current immigration situation to deportation of Mexicans in 1930s

The stock market tanked, unemployment rose and cries grew forceful against Mexican immigrants.

It was 1930.

In the decade that followed, an estimated 1 million people went to Mexico in a wave of deportations and voluntary repatriations. As many as half of them, it is believed, were U.S. citizens of Mexican ancestry. Full Story »

Posted by Leo Romero
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Topics: Immigration
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Posted by: Posted by Leo Romero - Oct 12, 2008 - 9:42 AM PDT
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Edited by: Leo Romero - Oct 12, 2008 - 9:42 AM PDT

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