Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People of Mexican descent, including U.S.-born citizens, were put on trains and buses and deported to Mexico during the Great ...

8:36 p.m. Feb. 6, 2025: A previous version of this article described Guadalupe Espinoza as a lecturer at Cal State Long Beach. She is a lecturer at Cal State Fullerton. For the first nine years of her ...

California Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday called for the state to commemorate the Mexican Repatriation of the 1930s, a 15-year period when nearly two million people of Mexican descent were deported ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security would like it to be known that reports of the death of a Mexican immigrant repatriation program have been greatly exaggerated. Tight budgets have ...

It was known as the Mexican Repatriation, and it began in 1930, as the Great Depression took hold. President Herbert Hoover announced a plan to ensure “American jobs for real Americans” – implying ...

More than one million people of Mexican descent, who were mostly American citizens, were rounded up in informal raids and deported after being blamed from taking jobs from other U.S. citizens in the ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s recent promise to deport entire families of undocumented immigrants — including those who are American citizens — harkens back to “repatriation” programs of the 1930s, ...

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — It's one of Donald Trump's most controversial campaign promises. The president-elect has called for mass deportations of millions of undocumented immigrants. For some, ...

As her junior year of high school came to a close in 2023, Tamara Gisiger’s history teacher tasked the class with a research project of their choosing. A then-17-year-old Gisiger narrowed in on what ...

Senate Majority Leader Lena Gonzalez, D-Long Beach, calls for the state to commemorate the 1930s Mexican Repatriation during a press conference on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. Hannah Poukish California ...