Reasoning with Democratic Values 2.0, Volume 2 by David E. Harris Anne-Lise Halvorsen & Paul F. Dain

Author:David E. Harris, Anne-Lise Halvorsen & Paul F. Dain
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2018-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

As a result of the efforts of the two professors, a new interest in the story took hold in California. After reading Decade of Betrayal, former California state senator Joseph Dunn called for a state investigation. The investigation led to the state of California issuing a formal apology in 2005, the Apology Act, to those individuals and families who were mistreated as the result of state action in the 1930s. The county of Los Angeles issued its own apology in 2012.

The United States government has not apologized. Proposed apology legislation was introduced in Congress but never enacted into law. The federal, state, and local officials who advocated for, and engaged in, policies of Mexican deportation and repatriation believed they were acting in the best interest of the country during a time of severe crisis.

The major sources for this chapter were:

Balderrama, F., & Rodriquez, R. (2006). Decade of betrayal: Mexican repatriation in the 1930s. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.

Grattan, B., & Merchant, E. (2013). Immigration, repatriation, and deportation: The Mexican-Origin population in the United States, 1920–1950. International Migration Review, 47(4), 944–975.

Hoffman, A. (1974). Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression: Repatriation pressures 1929–1939. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press.

Wagner, A. (2017, March 6). America’s forgotten history of illegal deportations. The Atlantic. Available at https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/americas-brutal-forgotten-history-of-illegal-deportations/517971/

LEARNING ACTIVITIES FOR “DEPORTEES”

Facts of the Case

Why had many Mexicans immigrated to the United States prior to the Great Depression?

Why were people of Mexican ancestry targeted for removal from the United States?

What is the difference between deportation and repatriation?

Why did many people of Mexican ancestry voluntarily leave the United States during the 1930s?

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