False Summits: A History Podcast about the American West

Mexican Repatriation Part I: Scapegoating Turns Systematic Cruelty in Early 20th Century America.


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In this episode, Marcelo takes the lead and shares the heartbreaking story of the US's Mexican Repatriation policies . Amid the Great Depression, lawmakers desperate to assign blame enacted harsh, exclusionary policies. Between the 1929 and  1939, somewhere between 300,000 and 1 million people—up to 60% of whom were U.S. citizens or legal residents—were forcibly expelled, many of them children.

Content warning: This podcast contains depictions of state-sanctioned violence.

 Sources

Decade of Betrayal
by Francisco E. Balderrama & Raymond Rodriguez
 
Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez

They Should Stay There by Fernando Saul Alanis Enciso
 

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False Summits: A History Podcast about the American WestBy Mason Orlando - Jess Leigh - Marcelo Aguilar