U.S. Urged to Apologize for 1930s Deportations

Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Kevin R. Johnson was quoted in a USA Today article on the 1930s anti-immigrant campaign, when Mexicans and Mexican-Americans were pressured through raids and job denials to leave the United States during the Depression. Many, mostly children, were U.S. citizens, and the vast majority of adults were here legally because it was so easy to enter the country in the early 1900s when factory and farm owners needed the labor.

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