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This was accompanied by voluntary repatriation to Europe and Mexico, and coerced repatriation and deportation of between 500,000 and 2 million Mexican Americans, mostly citizens, in the Mexican Repatriation. Total immigration in the decade of 1931 to 1940 was 528,000 averaging less than 53,000 a year.
Immigration of United States citizens, some legal, most illegal, had begun to accelerate rapidly. The law specifically banned any additional American immigrants from settling in Mexican Territory, which included California and Texas, along with the areas that would become Arizona, parts of Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah.
These laws targeted Native Americans, black Americans, Asians, and Mexican Americans. They have been described as Juan Crow , the rough equivalent to the Jim Crow laws emerging in the South. In El Paso, Mexicans Americans were demonized as ignorant, and therefore both ineligible and unworthy of the vote.
Shortly after the American Civil War, some states started to pass their own immigration laws, which prompted the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in 1875 that immigration was a federal responsibility. [50] In 1875, the nation passed its first immigration law, the Page Act of 1875, also known as the Asian Exclusion Act. It outlawed the importation of ...
Like the governors of Texas and Florida, Senate candidate J.D. Vance is not offering win-win solutions to immigration problems. Better immigration laws could benefit Ohio; political stunts, fear ...
North to Aztlan: A History of Mexican Americans in the United States (2006) Gomez, Laura E. Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race (2008) Gomez-Quiñones, Juan. Mexican American Labor, 1790-1990. (1994). Gonzales, Manuel G. Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the United States (2nd ed 2009) excerpt and text search
Hosted at Ohio State's Fawcett Center, the leaders of the project, "Immigrants make Columbus," seated a panel of four community advisory council members to discuss community-grounded solutions ...
City officials have wrestled for years with the impact of Haitian migration, which increased the population by an estimated 25%. Rue said the school district went from 200 to 2,000 non-native ...