[HOLY S**T!] Mexicans got ****ed big time. Please I want *** clowns to read how we got ****ed over

[Zaroku]

Mexican Repatriation

The Mexican Repatriation was the repatriation and deportation of and to from the during the between 1929 and 1939. Estimates of how many were repatriated range from 355,000 to 2 million. The policy, authorized by President whose scapegoated Mexican Americans for the Great Depression, was instituted as a means to free up jobs for Americans suffering financially.^{: xiii : 150} The vast majority of formal deportations happened between 1930 and 1933 as part of Hoover's policy which was first mentioned in his . After became president, both formal and voluntary deportation fell for all immigrants, but especially for Mexicans. The also instituted more lenient policies towards Mexican immigrants, especially for well-settled ones, even if some of them were technically in the country . People waving goodbye to a train carrying 1,500 Mexicans from Los Angeles on August 20, 1931
An estimated forty to sixty percent of those repatriated were of the United States - overwhelmingly children.^: 330While supported by the federal government, actual deportations and repatriations were largely organized and encouraged by city and state governments, often with support from local private en******. However, voluntary repatriation was far more common than formal deportation and federal officials were minimally involved.Some of the repatriates hoped that they could escape the economic crisis which was caused by the Great Depression.The government formally deported at least 82,000 people, with the vast majority occurring between 1930 and 1933 as part of Hoover's policy first mentioned in his .The Mexican government also encouraged repatriation with the promise of free land.^{: 185–186}

Widely scapegoated for exacerbating the overall economic downturn of the Great Depression, many Mexicans lost their jobs.Mexicans were further targeted because of "the proximity of the Mexican border, the physical distinctiveness of , and easily identifiable ."Legal scholar Kevin Johnson has stated that the repatriation meets modern legal definitions of .