In this episode, Marcelo takes the lead and shares the heartbreaking story of the US's Mexican Repatriation policies . Amid the Great Depression, lawmakers desperate to assign blame enacted harsh, exclusionary policies. Between the 1929 and 1939, somewhere between 300,000 and 1 million people—up to 60% of whom were U.S. citizens or legal residents—were forcibly expelled, many of them children.
Content warning: This podcast contains depictions of state-sanctioned violence.
Sources
Decade of Betrayal by Francisco E. Balderrama & Raymond Rodriguez
Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez
They Should Stay There by Fernando Saul Alanis Enciso
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