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four years following World War 1 Hispanics from Mexico and the Caribbean islands were welcomed into the United States as millions of immigrants had been before them then a 1929 Cambridge disgraceful. Of American History rivaling the slavery of blacks and the Jim Crow laws in the South that what after the Civil War during the start. Of 1930s and spanic Americans were blamed for the Great Depression lost their civil rights an even though US citizens or deported it was among the most heinous acts of American History ranking with the sleeve codes of the early English colonies the Chinese Exclusion Act of YouTube and the Jim Crow laws of the South  does heinous act targeted A specific group of people more than half of them Americans and branded them with a mark of non-american of other it was the Mexican repatriation campaign of 30 - 1939  during this decade of the depression local state and federal authorities singled out nearly two Logan Mexican Hispanic American citizens Nationwide and deported them to Mexico  it was the single greatest instance of Depot in America has ever perpetrated and its effects are still evident 70 years later the 21st century  since the phone King of the country America's industrial and agricultural might has been built on the backs of cheap labor labor coming to the United States from other countries Ashley for immigrants New York's Ellis Island was the Gateway from millions of Europeans San Francisco was the entry point for millions of but in the southwest access to America was a 2000 mile long border a border in name only aborted that he Phoenix had been Crossing Andrey Crossing for centuries  call Wing world war one that border virtually ceased to exist volumes of Hispanics who came to the US from Mexico and Central and South America looking for work during the boom times of the Roaring Twenties shop from the immigration restrictions and quotas of the 1924 National Origins Act they came to the US filling jobs that Americans did not want at the same time Hispanic Americans who have been citizens of the United States since the Mexican-American War of 1848 prospered as part of the fastest growing economy then a 1929 Black Tuesday happened and that same economies to halt  practically overnight 30% of America's Workforce lost their jobs  the Hoover administration was hopeless and it shot out a scapegoat Mexican labor  president Hoover's stated that Mexicans took away jobs from Americans as a result Mexicans and Hispanic American citizens was singled out and targeted for deportation  the 1930 president Herbert Hoover endorse the campaign called Mexican repatriation which focused on areas with large Hispanic populations mostly in before Nia Texas in Michigan immediately the Federal Bureau of immigration renamed Immigration and Naturalization Service in 19 3  launched raids to locate identify and Deport Mexicans to Mexico in order to reduce welfare expenditures I'm free up jobs for white Americans  for the next 10 years cities states in the federal government conducted the Mexican repatriation paint even ceiling off Hispanic neighborhoods so that no one could Escape  nothing like the conditions that surrounded black can we stream slavery Hispanic families were ripped apart with mothers and fathers being sent to Mexico and their children american-born citizen remaining of the United States at the same time hundreds of thousands of Hispanic American citizens threatened by local state and federal were forced to abandon their farms and homes and sent packing across the Rio Grande River  by the end of the 19 thirties how many population in the United States was reduced by one-half  Hispanic Americans would pay a terrible price Hispanic Americans that injured the shameful campaign they had no country the country of their birth to not want them and Mexico was a foreign free to them  well they might be legal citizens of the United States they were not cultural citizens they did not fit mold of natural Americans and for the next two generations the many accomplishments of America's Hispanic citizens would be ignored Hispanic leaders cultural icons artists and writers with fight against the Prejudice that they were not real American it would take two generations before the shameful episode of American History would begin to rectify itself to generation for the sense of other would begin to melt away

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