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: -The U.S. Deported a Million of Its Own Citizens to Mexico During the Great Depression. Up to 1.8 million people of Mexican descent-most of them American-born-were rounded up in informal raids and deported in an effort to reserve jobs for white people.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mexico. Mexico’s economy experienced a decline in the early onset of the great Depression because of its close ties with the US, which experienced an economic collapse after the Wall Street Crash in 1929.

Detailed explanation-5: -What was the main intent of the Mexican Repatriation Act? To send Mexican-Americans, immigrants back to Mexico.