During the worthy Depression,an estimated one million people were expelled to Mexico -- and 60 percent of them were US citizens. Francisco Balderrama is a history and Chicano studies professor at California State University Los Angeles, and the co-author of Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s. He describes the rhetoric used to justify the unconstitutional deportations in the 1930s, and tells Bob how the discussion echoes calls for mass deportations in the US today.
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