THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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Mexican-Americans being sent back to Mexico illegally
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Improved farming methods
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A shortage of laborers
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The Great Migration
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Detailed explanation-1: -Although the Bracero Program brought Mexicans to the United States to work primarily in agriculture, some workers were also employed in various industries. Over 100, 000 contracts were signed between 1943 and 1945 to recruit and transport Mexican workers to the United States for employment on the railroads.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Mexican Repatriation (Spanish: Repatriación mexicana) was the repatriation and deportation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans to Mexico from the United States during the Great Depression between 1929 and 1939. Estimates of how many were repatriated range from 355, 000 to 1 million.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Great Depression of the 1930s hit Mexican immigrants especially hard. Along with the job crisis and food shortages that affected all U.S. workers, Mexicans and Mexican Americans had to face an additional threat: deportation.
Detailed explanation-4: -In a number of high profile raids in 1931, the agency arrested 389 deportable aliens, 269 of whom were Mexican. A more important result of those raids, however, was that the threat of increased federal deportations likely hastened the departure of thousands of Mexicans.