1930s Mexican Deportation

Christine Valenciana, assistant professor of elementary and bilingual education, was always aware that her mother, as a child, had been forced to return to Mexico in 1935. What Valenciana didn’t realize was that her mother was just one of up to 2 million Mexican and Mexican-Americans who were deported during that era.
1. “I thought what happened to her and her family was an isolated incident,” she recalled. “I had no idea that this happened on a much larger scale.”
Here, Valenciana discusses her work as it relates to the mass deportation of people, many of whom were American citizens, that was systematically practiced during the Great Depression.

http://campusapps.fullerton.edu/news/20 ... ciana.html


Operation Wetback

Operation Wetback was a 1954 project of the 2. United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to remove about 80,000 undocumented people from the southwestern United States, with a focus on Mexican nationals. Mexican citizens residing in the U.S. were called wetbacks; this term is now used as a derogatory term for any Mexican or Central American immigrant.

://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback