Government
Dec. 2, 2022
Great Depression: illegal deportations or deportations of illegals?
Lest we think of these events as ancient history, some of our fellow Californians – living, but now elderly – endured and still recall the bad old days of Great Depression deportations and repatriations.
John S. Caragozian
Email: caragozian@gmail.com
John is a Los Angeles-based lawyer and sits on the Board of the California Supreme Court Historical Society. He welcomes ideas for future monthly columns on California's legal history at caragozian@gmail.com.
During the Great Depression, the United States used various tactics - some unconstitutional or coercive - to deport or "encourage" the out-migration of Mexican Americans. As a result, the U.S. lost over one-third of its Mexican American population, most of them American citizens. California was the epicenter.
In the early 1900s, Congress increasingly restricted immigration into the U.S. By 1924, quotas applied to most countries outside the...
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