Anti-Mexican Sentiment - 1930s

1930s

The Mexican American community has been the subject of widespread immigration raids. During The Great Depression, the United States government sponsored a Mexican Repatriation program, which was intended to pressure people to move to Mexico, but many were deported against their will. More than 500,000 individuals were deported, one source estimates that approximately 60 percent of which were United States citizens. In the post-war McCarthy era, the Justice Department launched Operation Wetback.