- Headline
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Repatriating Mexicans
- Publication Date
- Saturday, April 7, 1934
- Historical Event
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“Repatriation” of Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals continues
This database includes 249 articles about this event - Article Type
- Newspaper
- Location
- Page Section and Number
- 2
- Author/Byline
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- Article Text
- The Los Angeles welfare organization is furnishing railroad fare on a special train, food and financial aid to 300 families who wish to return to Mexico. It is said these families cost the county $100,000 a year to support in this country.
That means that each family costs us here in America, under our extravagant system of caring for the poor about $330 a family, while Mexico will feed them, if at all, on about one quarter of that amount. The poor live a very simple life in that part of the world and that is the place for all of that nationality who cannot make the grade in this country.
Other counties might do well to follow Los Angeles' example and give away to needy Mexicans who wish repatriation, one way tickets to the farther end of the southern Republic. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Jessica R.
- Location of Research
- Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com)
Learn More about this Historical Event: “Repatriation” of Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals continues
- Anthony Acevedo, a Mexican-American deportee, and US Army medic held POW at Berga (Americans and the Holocaust online exhibition)
- America’s Forgotten History of Mexican-American ‘Repatriation’ (NPR interview with Francisco Balderrama)
- Mexican Americans and Repatriation (Texas State Historical Association)
- Aqui Estamos y No Nos Vamos / Fighting Mexican Removal Since the 1930s (Boyle Heights Museum)
- INS Records for 1930s Mexican Repatriation (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services)
- Texas’ Mass Mexican Deportation (Think; KERA interview with Melita M. Garza)
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