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We the People ask the federal government to call on congress to act on the issue of the 1930s Mexican repatriation

Created by S.G. on November 24, 2016

Mexican repatriation occurred for nearly a decade after the Great Depression and was meant to cast out illegal immigrants from the U.S. While an estimated 2 million Mexicans were sent into Mexico, about 60% of those were actually U.S.-born citizens. This means that the U.S. was deporting its own citizens simply due to their ancestry. Aside from the risk of being deported from their own country, Mexican-Americans were also being blatantly discriminated against in their workforces as employers preferred hiring white Americans over them. The president should issue an apology and order a commission for investigation to be created. Following this, reparations and educational reform should be made in order to appropriately acknowledge and correct this national mistake.

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