USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -Using individual linked data on natives in the 1930 and 1940 Censuses, we find that Mexican repatriations resulted in reduced employment and occupational downgrading of native workers. These patterns were stronger for low skilled workers and for workers in urban locations.

Detailed explanation-4: -What was the main intent of the Mexican Repatriation Act? To send Mexican-Americans, immigrants back to Mexico.

Detailed explanation-5: -Why did Mexican migration to the United States drastically change in the 1930s? During the Great Depression jobs dried up, the land dried up (Dust Bowl) and those farmers and workers headed west looking for work. That led them into competition with Mexicans and Mexican-Americans already in the Southwest.