Mexican Repatriation In California From 1930 To 1936

Thousands of people need to be made aware of changes caused by the Mexican Repatriation in the economy of California from 1929 to 1936. The Mexican repatriation was the repatriation and forced deportation of Mexicans and those who were citizens of Mexican ancestry to Mexico from the United States during the Great Depression when the economic crises with the stock market crashed in 1929. In 1932, Mexican repatriation began during the Great Depression, leading to about 335,000 to 1 million people being deported. During the Great Depression, the National party merged with the South African party to create a United party government that it believed would better cope with the severe economic problems. The Mexican repatriation caused a decrease in

This program permitted millions of Mexican men to work illegally in the United States on short-term labor contracts. This program was able to help California in many ways but helped also get the economy back up and help those immigrants to work in the United States. In 2005, California passed the apology act, which formally apologized for Mexican repatriation. Some effects of the Mexican repatriation resulted in many were never able to return to the United States, their country of birth. These raids also affected by forcing thousands of people to leave the country by being threatened and having acts of violence against them. Repatriation ended when the United States needed Mexican laboring during WWII. As a result of these illegal activities, families were forced to abandon or were defrauded of personal and real property, which often was sold by local authorities as "payment" for the transportation expenses incurred in their removal from the United States to Mexico. The State of California apologizes to those individuals described in Section 8721 for the fundamental violations of their basic civil liberties and constitutional rights committed during the period of illegal deportation and coerced emigration. The State of California regrets the suffering and hardship those individuals and their families endured as a direct result of the government-sponsored Repatriation Program of the 1930s. The Bracero Program, which allowed Mexican men to work in the United States on short-term agricultural labor contracts, ended more than four decades ago. The program has been brought back into the news recently because of discussions about a new guest worker program, and it is important to understand it. But while most Americans know something about the program, most of what they know is inaccurate. The program grew out of a series of bi-lateral agreements between