Yvette Borja interviews professor and author Marla A. Ramírez on her recent book "Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation." They discuss the mass removals during the interwar period that expelled approximately 1 million ethnic Mexicans from the United States, how many of these procedures occurred extralegally, and the roles that both Mexican and U.S. governments played in construing U.S. citizens of Mexican descent as foreign to the U.S.

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