"Decade of Betrayal": How the U.S. Expelled Over a Half Million U.S. Citizens to Mexico in 1930s

[@BttrflyMom]

My Nana was 8 when she experienced this. She lost her mother 4 years before this and her father had to move to Mexico with 5 children. Along with his parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews. Even though most were born in the U.S to immigrant parents.l, they were shipped on buses & trains. My Nana talked about having a hard life in Mexico. She didn't even know Spanish. She returned to the U.S. by the age of 24. She is the strongest woman I've ever met. She lived to be 96 years old. I never knew about this until I read her obituary, she never liked to speak about the hard times she faced. I thank God for her prayers, her Faith & all of her kisses & long hugs. She was always the last one to let us go. She is missed and incredibly loved.

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

In Arizona Mexican-Americans along with Irish-Americans were deported around the time of WWI.

[@josephharlem6192]

Thanks for this and God bless you and your family. I have been searching for how this played out for the citizens actually deported. To find out that it took her 16 years to come back to her country is incredible. They should sue the US gov't those still living or their relatives

[@quitaulla1569]

❤❤

[@madfoxcityemnau6414]

I would love to be the actuary that calculates 16 years of lost wages. Absolutely love it. But monetizing the emotional distress and trauma would be difficult. Tax payers could not afford to pay for this devastating loss to such a huge number of people. God bless the families each and every one, especially those whose names and memories have yet to be discovered ❤

[@jetkismet2345]

Never during my 12 years of public school did I hear one mention of this piece of our sinister history. Nor the attack on black Wall Street until I went to college. And we know the saying- if we don't know our history, we are doomed to repeat it.

[@pacificswell]

Two years after this post, I am barely learning about this too, and that’s because of college courses. What a brutal time and present time as well.

[@Chelseapimentel]

I’m a freshmen in college and I’m learning about this in college. I’m frustrated that I did not learn this in Highschool it would of been so important to me and useful to learn about my Culture and race. Also I didn’t know about the attack on Black Wall Street. Yes I agree we need to teach the and educate ourselves the history if not the cycle will repeat itself. Viva Mexico!!! I’m proud to be Mexican America 🇲🇽!

[@friendlyfriday3445]

@@Chelseapimentel I think it just depends on the history teacher you learn it from. I live in California and I was taught this in sophomore year. The teacher explained that America had this history of purposefully tempting Mexicans with us citizenship if they helped during times of Great War, world war 1 and 2, and when all was done they sort of backstabbed them. The Three reasons why I believe some teachers, in high school, don’t talk about these things is because ether 1. They don’t really want to talk about America’s ugly past and want to keep Americas image somewhat clean 2. They don’t really care and are just teach the bare minimum or 3. They forgot.

[@darlene9894]

i'm a freshmen in highschool and my teacher's teaching us this right now !

[@darlene9894]

also proud to be mexican american :D

[@chevyvel6646]

In Brownsville, Texas, i learned about our Mexican America history. I learned about Corky Gonzalez and his poem "I am Joaquin," and so many injustices done to our peoples.

[@danielgalaviz4165]

Mexicans don’t. Cry we ain’t black cabron Election time democrats are so nice ? They are so Edina racists Trump 2024

[@godfreyzilla8608]

@chevyvel6646 : I have a couple of fond memories of living in Brownsville, Texas with my parents and two siblings as a 3 1/2 year old boy in 1951. My father had a milk and cheese delivery truck/business at that time. Another was the day my petite mother whacked a giant tarantula in the bathroom with a broom. Hollywood made a movie about a giant atomic tarantula a few years later but they never mentioned my mother. No royalties, I used to ride my tricycle that had a back open trunk on the sidewalk in front of our white clapboard house. I would fill the trunk with rocks and sticks to defend the neighborhood against the bad guys hiding behind a row of trees in a large open lot next to our house. Little did I know that the "bad guys" might actually be my neighbors. Never heard of Corky Gonzalez. I'll have to look him up and read his work. Thanks for sharing. God Bless

[@antoinetterodriguez7305]

I knew Corky and his family. They brought awareness how Latinos were not given equal opportunities from housing, jobs, and higher education. My high school counselor stated "Antoinette your not smart enough to attend college". I proved him wrong and attained college and received a Bachelor of Science. Viva LA Raza.

[@ernestomontemayor5855]

​@@antoinetterodriguez7305keep your head up and be proud of your race and your accomplishments. Pura Raza. [Tejano breed].South Bound. Blessings Montemayor USMC Retired Santa Rosa, Texas

[@teddyde6128]

@@antoinetterodriguez7305 ¡Que viva!

[@danielrendon8555]

Lots of Mexican Americans in Texas were here before Texas belonged to the USA.

[@Robert-lb5st]

My family was here before in southeast and central Texas

[@jimmytwotimes2758]

Same in California

[@aaronsinger]

Not to mention, many are Native Americans.

[@mazzy23star1]

trueVery

[@Unhingedtrucker]

Who cares get over it

[@elg281]

When my Great great grandpa was born here it was Mexico. When he died it was Texas. We were always here. ✊🏾🪶🐆✊🏿💯

[@chuylopez8793]

1847 your great grambpy

[@MrSlideronline]

Lmao​@@chuylopez8793

[@JohnTorres-vd3tz]

My family arrived in the early 1800's when Texas was part of Nuevo Espana and mixed with the Apaches in West Texas.

[@saucytony4609]

We didn’t cross the border! Border crossed us 5th generation chicano from Tucson AZ💪🏽🇲🇽🇺🇸🏜️🪶

[@tony-g1g4o]

exactly .The 1846 to 1848 war was the biggest land grab in history.Not my words these are president grants words

[@ernestogomez1498]

With elections coming in November of 2024 it's important that people should take the time and research recent history of our country. This episode happened in 1929 during the Depression in the United States, and in fact around the world. More than 2 million people of Mexican ancestry were rounded up and given a one way ticket to Mexico, their "country of origin," as the government claimed. Many of those persons whose ancestors were original Californians before the United States took over the land from Mexico were deported. The government cry was "as long as they look like Mexicans." Donald Trump has said that he will roundup people to be deported, saying illegals, but we know very well how he changes from one day to another. During the 1860's thousands of Chinese workers were brought to the U.S. to laid the railroad connecting the West Coast with the East, after completion was done, the Chinese were told to return to their home. In those days navigation took months to cross the oceans and the Chinese didn't even had the money to return to their homes. Many of them started looking for a place to stay and that is when they crossed the border into Baja California and settled in the town of Mexicali, Mexico along with the rest of Mexican settlers. Today their descendants still live there and many became businessman. During WWII the Japanese were also victims when they were rounded to live in concentration camps in California and other parts of the country. In short I want people to educate themselves thru history. I will repeat the words of the actual President of Mexico: "If we don't our history, we will never know were are we going." I believe that, and that's why is very important to know what passed in the past in order to avoid the mistake of not acting right away. I had in the past a dear German friend of mine that told me that many people in Germany dismissed as rhetoric the speeches of Hitler, only to become a brutal reality.

[@jesustrevino2023]

@@ernestogomez1498 sir, there’s no excuse for what Hoover did during his presidency but what I will say to you is that me personally, I’m voting for the most sane, competent, intelligent, business savvy person and the person whose more aligned with MY VALUES and closer representation of what God preached. I’m not for kids getting their genitalia chopped off, nor am I for men going into women’s bathrooms, etc. I could go on my friend but why waste my time since I’d be wasting my time. Food for thought!

[@ernestomontemayor5855]

​@@jesustrevino2023 Yes. Everyone has their opinions and beliefs. Hope you are right about this man running for president. Jehovah's preaching is not about political power or the world government of today. The most sane, intelligent and fit for president and vice president are [Kamala and Waltz]. No disrespect. Just the facts. Blessings Montemayor USMC Retired Santa Rosa, Texas 😊

[@jesustrevino2023]

@@ernestomontemayor5855 semper-fi. I have no respect for tampon Tim nor for a Kamala who has NO IDEA as to what she’s doing. This Democratic Party sacrificed our troops in Afghanistan and they’re sacrificing this country as we carry on this dialogue. Santa Maria, Texas, yes, Santa Maria Cougars. ✌🏼

[@godfreyzilla8608]

@@jesustrevino2023 HA HA HA !!! "most sane, competent, intelligent, business savvy person and the person whose more aligned with MY VALUES and closer representation of what God preached" What universe are you living in? A man who (reportedly) encouraged a violent coup against our government, refused to protect the life of his Vice President, has been convicted of sexual abuse, convicted of election interference, stole national security secrets for his own personal use and gain, created a fraudulent charity, benefited from a fraudulent real estate school, had multiple sexual encounters with women outside his marriage, publicly bragged about grabbing women, an accused tax evader, defrauder of construction contractors and a man who filed for bankruptcy at least six times. That man??? A pious fraud??? Is that what you mean by "MY VALUES"??? You remind me of a chicken who would vote for Colonel Sanders for President and then wonder why they are hanging upside down with its head cut off in a meat processing line? Please educate yourself. Watch Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity on You Tube or maybe even read a book about it.

[@teddyde6128]

@@jesustrevino2023you sir are not being Christ like.. that thug, felon, r@pist does not have Christian values and is not a good man. He worships money and power. Look up the 7 sins he’s committing all of them and you are following him?!

[@alohafromhh8758]

It's important to know our history and tragic mistakes. I had never learned this before. Thank you for sharing this piece of history.

[@evalenasbabys]

There is a real good movie. It has Jennifer Lopez in it. She was probably in her early 20s when it came out but it’s about what happened during that time. The movie is called Mi Familia. I think they have it for free on on KZbin. You should watch it. It’s really good.

[@doloresayala8131]

My great grandparents were “deported” along with my grandma and siblings during this evil program in 1931. They were all legally here.

[@VanillaEarth744]

They came back?

[@cool_lioness]

We were ethnically cleansed of our lands. Can’t stand when they continue to use the term deported.

[@marioarteaga3488]

Did they make it back ?

[@luciancastillo1337]

@@VanillaEarth744no they felt betrayed

[@1988vikable]

OMG!! How horrible!! This makes me very emotional as a Mexican I never knew this we were never taught about this in History books. Racism, Xenophobia, discrimination and the stealing of Mexican lands is a tragedy that has happened to Mexicans due to American culture/consciousness/ Ideology.

[@Elyeyi05]

You mean you dint pay attention in class I learned about this in high school

[@1988vikable]

@@Elyeyi05 Nope they didn't teach it plain and simple. Maybe in California and Texas since there is a bigger Mexican population and where it happened. But not in my state. How old are you? Because history books do get revised/updated to include history that had been excluded in the past they do add and take stuff out you know.

[@Elyeyi05]

@@1988vikable I’m 40 and again it was thought you just had to pay attention

[@1988vikable]

@@Elyeyi05 No your wrong. I told you they didn't teach it. Why is that so hard for you to believe?? Other people have testified it was never taught to them in school. Its not that far out to believe man. Dont be so dismissive you dont know all the school systems in the country. What are you the secretary of education??? I thought so! 🙄

[@Elyeyi05]

@@1988vikable calm down don’t change colors on me now ,why is it so hard for you to comprehend that it was thought in school ,what are you s t u p i d? I thought so

[@nycbankers1427]

Next time someone says go back to your country show them this we belong in this land more than anyone does don’t let them call you foreign in your own land

[@noskpain2792]

Apples to oranges. The peoples deported were Americans not Mexicans.

[@nycbankers1427]

@@noskpain2792 😴😴😴

[@Mexicano1768]

@@noskpain2792they were both, Mexicans and Chicanos.

[@sophinal]

Not more than the black people who was here before everyone

[@nycbankers1427]

@@sophinal there was never black people in the americas we natives are the real Americans everyone else is a foreigner

[@davidmenasco5743]

This is an important story, that every voter in the US should hear about.

[@beatrizolivas5669]

Sorry to think, they don't care! 😔

[@jeannette.sgili.132]

I wish I had shown this to so many people before the election. I thought everyone had learned it but I was so wrong.

[@madfoxcityemnau6414]

​I mean, if you have a phone there is literally no reason why anyone should not know about this. At this point, ppl should not be waiting for anyone to teach them anything. It's firehouse of info that can be researched and fact Che ked TOO! I could see if you attended high school before Google, but there is so much freedom in learning now. I am very grateful to research and take deeper dives on topics during the weekends.

[@beatrizolivas5669]

@madfoxcityemnau6414 Is a fact! My grandparents were deported being LEGAL residents! My grandfather worked in the railroads. They went back to Mexico with their US born children! My mother being the youngest, was born in Mexico. Luckily for me, in 1978 my American aunt was able to immigrate me! I'm now a US citizen and thankful for the opportunity I was given! But my poor grandparents felt betrayed back in 1931!

[@davidmenasco5743]

@madfoxcityemnau6414 Sadly, a lot of people allow the algorithm to lead them, and they get nowhere fast.

[@sierravista9013]

Disgusting, and the depression was caused by the greed if upper class and stupid trade agreements. This is horrible. Never taught this in school. We have a class problem, keeping the wealth at the top, and then we blame ethnic groups as a problem.

[@evalenasbabys]

There’s a movie with Jennifer Lopez in it when she was in her 20s so this movie is already kind of old but it’s a really good movie about what happened in the 30s to these Mexican American people. The movie is called Mi Familia.

[@davidmenasco5743]

Thanks for that tip. This is a sad story, but it should be told and retold.

[@bebaramz9914]

Well, that explains why nobody knows about that movie if cheapened by j lo haha

[@evalenasbabys]

@@bebaramz9914 oh no are you another old hag that is jealous of her beauty? That explains why you are so bitter. You didn’t have to go out of your way to comment on my comment because it only makes you look like a bitter old lady 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@wood4902]

There's a reason this American history isn't taught in most US public schools. And, according to Ron Desantis and those who agree with him, they believe that teaching this American history in public school will cause white students to feel uncomfortable. This is why Critical Race Theory is banned. At least racists aren't telling Mexican Americans to "get over it". I hope this channel continues to grow and keep uncovering America's hidden history.

[@JosephMarquez-pj9dp]

It is important to teach history correctly so as events like this do not ocurr again. It is also important for writers or teachers not to point fingers creating hate because the current generations are not responsible for these events of the past. We as a nation are only responsible to insure we follow and enforce the Bill of Rights and the Constititution to protect all Americans period.

[@lorenzo2534]

They should feel uncomfortable they can thank their Daddy and Mommmy for lying all this time ⏲️ 😮😮😮

[@OfficeMusic]

No matter how bad things got, get or become, Mexicans will always have Mexico. I pity the blacks in the US

[@robertjohnson6878]

They can't even tell you what critical race Theory actually is they've made up their own Boogeyman! Critical race theory is a legal Theory that had been taught in law schools about structural racism the right-wing pundits turned it into something else that fit into their narrative

[@c.retana-holguin8318]

My aunt's husband, my uncle who was an Amercian citizen, was deported along with his parents. She also told me travel during those times was treacherous--as many roads were unpaved or had no crash barriers. When World War II broke out and he tried enlisting in the Mexican army, he was told to return to the United States and enlist there. Stained American history reeks.

[@VanillaEarth744]

So he went back to the US?

[@bruces4515]

@@VanillaEarth744 It couldn't be said that he owed the US a debt.

[@gabrielagarcia7139]

They were Mexicans and were indigenous to all these lands until they were slowly but surely vacated from their homeland

[@lorenzo2534]

Your awake 👍

[@OmegaSeraphim]

American public schools sweep these things under the rug.

[@Elyeyi05]

No they don’t I learned about this in high school in history class

[@sotorodrigo33]

​@Elyeyi05 depends on your class dummy. You think they all teach this

[@hoosiernative9668]

@@Elyeyi05what city and state do you live in?? I grew up in northern Indiana and they never talked about Mexican American history it was always. Black and Native American. Never Mexican American or Asian Americans.

[@Elyeyi05]

@ Azusa,ca

[@lorenzo2534]

​@Elyeyi05 what did you learn ?

[@redcdiver1]

My grandparents were deported during this time, my grandfather worked for the Santa Fe railroad, and owned property in San Bernardino. He lost everything because he was deported by force after living in California for over 30 years. My mother was born in California, but because she was just a child, I was born in Mexico, when my mother told me this story, it bound my blood to think she and my family went through this. I teach my children on the injustices that are still present, especially now that Trump has let loose the racists whites that are anti immigrant, even though the Hispanic community has contributed to the building of this nation.

[@Duquedecastro]

He never received his land back? My great great grandfather had the same experience but was able to get his land back in Wyoming, later sold it and moved west

[@Duquedecastro]

I would see what could be done legally! You and your aunts/uncles are his heirs!

[@josephharlem6192]

Did you or any of your Mexican American friends vote for trump again ? Because I think this is gonna happen again or you gonna have to walk around with your passport in America!!!

[@carmendelgado105]

I think this video has shown me more history about Latinos in the U.S. than all of my years in K-12 education in public schools where I really learned NOTHING about Latino History. Thank you for this video.

[@davidmenasco5743]

What you say, is true for me as well.

[@Unhingedtrucker]

Who cares

[@TroyN.-eb4mw]

@@carmendelgado105 Here's a history lesson for you . Latinos are Romans . That is their ethnicity. How many Mexicans do you know who look like Romans ? Rome is in Europe .

[@Carlospenamusic1]

This is so shameful.

[@Unhingedtrucker]

Necessary

[@dietlindvonhohenwald448]

@@Unhingedtrucker US Citizens ?

[@Unhingedtrucker]

@dietlindvonhohenwald448 who cares they mexicans

[@frankiejaimes1]

FYI-It’s not deportation when the people being kicked out their homes were already here before the Anglos arrived.

[@arteks2001]

It’s ethnic cleansing.

[@gilbertsoto2472]

WOWWW WHAT AN INJUSTICE TO MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS I AM ALSO NATIVE AMERICAN , IT IS SAID THAT WITH KNOWLEDGE COMES SORROW ! SO SO WRONG 😠😡🤬

[@alexchavez3383]

Why are you yelling? And how does this affect you today? ​@@gilbertsoto2472

[@jordan_0914]

You're right, it's Ethnic cleansing.

[@XxMayhem88]

YEP

[@CindySorenson-r4m]

All of my great uncles faught in WW2 & survived. My uncle Jake, forman for a ranch for over 20 years in NM went to prison once for smuggling the ranch hand's kids & wives, grand parents back to the ranch. He told me of the mass deportations during the 30's. Jake told me that's when all the hidden earth homes were built between natural gullies, which whould shield their foot prints well. They walked up to the road & emerged from seemingly nowhere, ready to work. Their hiddend home where nice! Jake was like Santa to their kids. He bought all their grocieries, and they could pick things from a Sears catellogue. He told me they we mostly born there, but never leave the ranch. They lead happy simple lives still to this day. That was only back in the early 1980's when Jake told me those things. He died a few years later on that same ranch, doing what he loved most, cowboying. Jake what white, but spoke fluient Spanish, and could read & write in it too, we we're just all raised that way back then & never thought twice about it.

[@manjram363]

Remember native Americans were expelled from Arizona on the 80's Terrible injustice.

[@losusmil]

The things they don't teach in school. I feel like we covered so much history about the American Revolution, Civil War, WWII, a little bit of Vietnam, and a few things here and there. But this was never mentioned during my 12 years of education. It took a Chicano Literature class on my last semester of my BA degree for me to learn about this! Im so angry at not only what took place but at the fact that it took me so long to learn about it. I read the book in about 1 week and did a presentation on it for my class. Im happy to know that 25 students in that class now know about it and hopefully they'll tell others.

[@putod]

Native people have always been treated poorly in their own land

[@barano9729]

While a majority of Mexicans have some indigenous blood , most however aren’t overwhelmingly of Native American ancestry. They are mestizo. That this is their land is a false assumption.

[@putod]

​@@barano9729 A 2011 study showed 85 to 90% of mtDNA lineages are of Native American origin for "Mexicans".

[@saucytony4609]

@@barano9729says peso pluma😂

[@Alexandra-j9c]

​@@barano9729😂

[@ofeliavaldesjohnson2897]

I am 75 years old and born here. Never understood why my American born parents were raised in Mexico. I knew my grandparents on both sides had been here legally and had worked for railroad. I have original documents. 😢

[@Lostinspacepup]

Wow, I never knew. So much of this country was part of Mexico before there was a USA & was named Mexico for us, the Mexica/Meche/Moche ppl **Moche/Moses or Ppl of Moses** & before it was named that, All the continents of The Americas belonged to all indigenous ppls who so many forget that includes the Mexican, South American & “black” American descendants 💯 All of us with the known native Americans & Canadian indigenous were ALL ONE FAMILY, ONE PPL WHO LIVED ALL OVER OUR LANDS, TURTLE ISLAND & MOVED ANYWHERE ON IT AS THERE WAS NO BORDER. ONLY tribal territories & we all mingled with each other.

[@BLUEBARRY55]

I am a Los Angeles native. I love my Latin brothers and sisters. I could not imagine an America without them. I know these stories and it always breaks my heart. I have white privilege and have to work at growing my awareness. If you look at the L. A. Times, that's me marching for Ruben Salazar and much later, that's me marching up Van Nuys Blvd against Prop 187. The only white face in either photo.

[@jason4353]

You definitely have white privilege.

[@TroyN.-eb4mw]

@BLUEBARRY55 I'm sure that they love you too , Mr. White privilege. Lol as long as you buy the beer and lunch .

[@angelinimartini]

We all have some sort of privilege we have to check no matter color or background. We must work together and learn together/teach each other for a better future. So thank you for working towards paving a better future and being a loud voice to causes that matter.

[@xabdulraheem]

Democracy Now, thank you so much for the work you do.

[@teresafernandez9849]

They also did it again in the 50's on something they called operation wet back. It was heartbreaking to see Mexican Americans in México looking for their mothers and fathers, grandparents many of who were picked off street and never seen again.

[@AT.inbetween]

Blaming immigrants while he's the biggest crook!

[@MrChristianbowman82]

As a 40 yr old white American man I want to know why I was never taught this or ran across something about it, I mean I know why, they tried keeping it on the DL, “Down Low” instead of teaching us are history so we don’t repeat it and make the same mistakes as our ancestors!

[@TheTrueBallin]

Each country’s history taught in schools is propaganda. They want all children to believe there country is righteous and better till you find out the truth.

[@Alexandra-j9c]

Our teacher thought us about this in elementary but he was Mexican American

[@arttrujillo7949]

Yes, I agree

[@GenXican84]

How can one be deported from the country they're a citizen of?

[@daWatcher]

Dan Fabela easy, ignore the rule of law and the Constitution, don’t give the deportees due process and just deport them quickly. It’s sick that this horrible chapter of our history is not more widely known.

[@drah9955]

Dan Fabela...It was a chicken shit America at that time...America great, sometimes, some Americans A Holes

[@miamijefe7793]

@@daWatcher There are more caucasians in prison than anyone else, followed by blacks, then hispanics

[@qualqui]

Well, its simple, my Tía Catalina,Tío José ,Tía Josefina, Tío Guillermo, Tío Mario were born in Texas but because my grandmother was assisted by other women(don't remember what they're called), they didn't bother to go to the county courthouse of their area to register the baby born, my mom was the exception you see, because after my Tía Josefina was born, my grandma gave birth to Artemio,but this baby boy died in infancy, I'm concluding something happened during pregnancy that didn't effect my grandma but the infant wasn't strong enough to resist and died, so for the next pregnancy, my grandpa hired the town doctor, Dr. Simon to assist my grandma and upon birthing my mom, Dr. Simon diligently notified the birth registry in town and when next he saw my grandpa, he gave him my mother's birth certificate, being the simple farmer he was, he never went to register his other children or to modify my mother's birth certificate, thus my mom's b.c. states the baby girl's name is "Not Named".

[@pauldeanda4985]

Bc, their parents were not citizens? Many Mexicans were here under the Brazero Program ( migrant workers) before the Great Depression.

[@pinkiesue849]

so they went to the man's workplace and took him right out of the field, (so he was not on welfare or whatever it was called then). Then even the KIDS went to jail? Thats awful.

[@israelnevarez4751]

This hits home to me, I'm not going to forget this

[@humbertogarcia7317]

Know your history and always be ready to defend your freedom against all enemies, foreign and domestic!

[@Rossoneri2]

Ahora más que nunca

[@raulpulido867]

My mother's family lived in what was known as San Antonio and what we now know as Watts South Central LA, she was born in the city of Vernon Ca. her family was repatriated when she was maybe seven or eight years old, she talked about the struggles they faced in Mexico and the fact that they were not Catholic made them victims of violence and hatred in Mexico too. Some how they survived and thrived and started making their way back to California in the decades of the fourties and the fifties my mother met my father in Mexico and stayed to be with him, times were hard and she decided to help out by working in Cali. while he stayed in Mexicali it was very comune for people to do that but there was something else but that's no longer done is women would have their babies in Mexico even though they could've easily given birth here in the USA, and so I was born in Mexico , i am proud to have served in the US Army but I'm also proud to be Mexican

[@citlalie9791]

Remember that Mexican have high Native American ancestry :0 This is why they get discriminated..

[@bijoubijoux5185]

and the native americans didn't "discriminate" each other as they genocided other tribes for their land? Lol. By the way in the Dominican Republic there is still slavery. Are you embarrassed that latinos are still slaveholders in 2018?

[@conEso916]

@@bijoubijoux5185 the ignorance you spew is ridiculous trying to make excuses for the ignorance Europeans brought just like all the Sickness and shity sidewalks you brought.

[@skywind8030]

I dont think so.

[@ellielopez1615]

@@conEso916 it doesn’t make it any better but like there’s a saying in Spanish, “todos tienen cola que le pisen.”

[@emmanuelnochebuena4453]

​@@bijoubijoux5185and the white people didn't discriminate themselves right, what about the Roma people, Jewish people, Armenian people, Sicilian Italian....

[@bgakabrunogreen]

I was born and raised in San Diego, CA. WHY AM I JUST LEARNING ABOUT THIS TODAY?! I have felt betrayed for a very long time now and that feeling just keeps growing. My best friend growing up, his parents were suddenly deported and it ruined his life. He lived with me for months afterwards and his mental health is still in shambles. Not only that, but the deportation helped to tear the family apart, literally and figuratively. When Trump closed the border for the pandemic, my best friend at the time had to live with me for 10 months. Trump violently separated him from his wife and child. They don’t think of us as human beings. We’re barely pawns in their chess game. They treat their dogs better than they treat Mexicans.

[@Julian-wx2cl]

Excellent video!!! Wow.

[@shellydurunna]

I wonder natives never went on air and said they want white people out. I think we should let the natives decide who stays and who leaves.

[@bijoubijoux5185]

oh ya, since you're a racist and you think all red people are the same and didn't massacre each previous indian group that owned the land LOL. As is the case with literally every country on Earth. So any random indian tribe is entitled to any patch of land huh? What if that tribe never even lived in that microregion of the continent? Not to mention how many of another indian nation (out of hundreds of indian nations) did that indian group scalp and possibly genocide to momentarily claim the one they lived in? WHICH indian group are u talking about? Or are red people just red people? Do you view Japanese killing millions of Chinese as just yellow people killing each other, nothing more? And which blood-soaked microregion of the continent did that tribe occupy? And I'm sure you would much prefer that every nation on the whole continent had lived a wild, starvation, live until 22 years old type of life, including yourself? And that that's the country that should have existed instead of America? And the type of shithole that you wish would replace America now? LOL get a life. Why do u think those indian nations disappeared so fast? It's because their people were RUNNING to ditch their difficult lives and live in America (the jurisdiction, roads, and technology on which americans created their own way of life), marrying white women, and mixing with whites so fast that their genes dwindled down to about 2 percent in the Americans even that contain their genes at all (myself included), the vast majority of their nations disappearing for good.

[@beefy74]

@@bijoubijoux5185 I hope you aren't as ignorant as you were when you decided to write this piece of mindless garbage

[@metalpunk1234]

That would have been a good one, besides, they were the first inhabitant to have lived here longer than we have.

[@msimpson4078]

Why? Those so-called " natives" aren't really native to this land.

[@Alektli_Ka_Tlahtoani]

The natives don't vote in the white man's system. They call them the newcomers.

[@goudagalindo1790]

Mexican Americans in California know the story. We know the Dodger Land forced removal…F Biden F Trump.

[@richardazhocar676]

It happened to my grandmother during the Great Depression in Tenant, California. She as a 2 year and her U.S. born siblings along with their father. My great-grandmother had died two years prior to this incident and is buried in the Tenent town cemetery.

[@aaronsinger]

And yet there are millions Americans of Mexican descent who voted for Trump, and will again.

[@MarkGrijalva]

🛑 rance

[@saucytony4609]

Colonized much?😂

[@charleyu5506]

As if the democrats didn't deport millions under obama, just another confused yt liberal. Go ahead and accuse me of being a trumpublican because you refuse to understand nuance.

[@adamchavez999]

And will continue thankyou

[@jimcarson7747]

"land of the free"? uh ? ... does an American patriot's self-reflection ever get beyond Narcissism ?

[@PapaMagnum]

Apparently not. The white nationalists in this thread didn't even read the fucking title. "ILLEGAL IS NOT A RACE!!" This, despite ***right in the title*** it says that citizens were deported to Mexico. We all know where these people's heads are at.

[@teardrop-in-a-fishbowl]

It raises the question of what this patriotism is based TODAY. I believe that it is a theater, rather instilled and stubbornly defended. No one can really be proud of some crimes that occurred under US leadership. (Vietnam, Iran Contra, Central America, Afghanistan, Iraq .......)

[@Bastogne1944]

+PapaMagnum "The INS website is not a good source". Too bad this website is the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) which is relating to a report done by the INS. So what is a reliable source to you? Gawker? NYTimes? BuzzFeed? WasPos? FACT CHECK: "Hoover did not use immigration policy to "create jobs" and never "ordered the deportation of all illegal aliens." During his four-year presidency, roughly 121,000 persons were officially deported or induced to leave through threat of deportation, according to our analysis of official statistics". Nobody will believe me as long you race baiters keep shifting the narrative to suit your interests. We have had consensus here in the U.S since the 1800's so yes I do expect some recorded form of documentation taking place in 1930's. I do not care about your stance because people are entitled to their own opinion and not fact.

[@PapaMagnum]

Way to completely miss my point entirely. Not that it matters because you seem to have a romanticized view of everything and judging by your post history you didn't bother to read the title of the video.

[@Bastogne1944]

+PapaMagnum Your tone of writing shifted once I brought out the facts. I have been on this url page for hours and you are going to tell me that I have not even watched the video nor read the title? Now that is disingenuous and deceitful. I forgot to add the source to the last fact I stated: www.factcheck.org/2010/07/hoover-truman-ike-mass-deporters/ "the INS website is not a good source, as they are extremely likely to paint a rosy picture of their own past and bury their uglier deeds." So the INS website which is really and INS report published by the USCIS, is now fake news because you have deemed them to be negative? That is exactly the same rhetoric Trump uses against the MSM. Unless you can back up your claim? Until then, resistance is futile and you are giving yourself no leg to stand on.

[@candycrush5706]

Sick society

[@CSDAdvocacy]

Why do they not ask about the economic impact on agriculture and other businesses? There must have been devastating effects.

[@clarareyes5888]

My dad was born in Balmorrhea, Texas (1916); my mom in Kansas City, Kansas (1919); both were repatriated to Mexico with their respective parents. My mom was always terrified of Border Patrol and my dad always presented a Resident Card at the border crossing coming back from Juarez into El Paso. What an injustice to our parents and our culture😢.

[@dietlindvonhohenwald448]

If they were born in the US, they had a US birth certificate right? How can they be deported?

[@randysmith2866]

I grew up in Southern California, and I never saw or heard any of this in public school. Thank you for posting this!

[@mymartinez9318]

Not only were they deporting Mexicans but 1st 2nd 3rd generation Chicanos. Not only that but it's a miracle that my brothers, sisters and I were even born. During the 1970's L.A. County was sterilizing Mexican Women after they gave birth to a child.

[@snakepit101]

Back here in 2024 wondering how bad it is going to be with Trump at the helm.

[@dragon8me2]

Trump's the bad "dude" that we need to get out.

[@MrGreenstar2012]

dragon8me2 try to go to Mexico illegally you'll do two years and then be deported period make Mexico great again MMGA

[@avamiller1245]

Jan Reynolds poor you. You think you own this country.

[@pathacker4963]

dragon8me2 apparently he's not the only "bad dude".

[@randomamerican471]

Yeah, the muslims in Sweden rioted the other day because the police arrested a drug dealer. And the person that was second most likely to win the election absorbed $400 million dollars in return for favorable policy changes. And gave up 20% of our Uranium to Russia. The Democratic Party is in a death spiral. And they have no idea how to pull their heads out.

[@lumiesoucek3478]

P CC Even in United States doesn't add up to 1%.

[@big-x2934]

Disappointing to see that Roosevelt who is one of my heros had at least toes of clay.

[@pinkiesue849]

bix-x: Roosevelt got a lot of things right, but not this one. He helped see this country thru years of hard times, but this one thing he did not do right.

[@friendlyfriday3445]

@@pinkiesue849 the reality is that no president is perfect. Each have their problems and some try to over come them. It was common back then to see many people who believed that the Caucasian race was superior to the rest. Things have changed and we should move forward to a brighter future we’re Americans can stop focusing on race. Being an American doesn’t depend on a race rather on ideology.

[@ofeliavaldesjohnson2897]

He didn't think Mexicans or Black's were sufficiently intelligent to self govern.

[@ellielopez1615]

This was allowed by a democratic president. Now tell me again how the hell does any democrat give a crap about us?!?!

[@libreverdaderamente4450]

Was it?

[@gime1945]

You overlooked the party shift in the 60s-80s, where Democrats and Republicans shifted ideologies.

[@David-of8ls]

So JfK and Franklin Roosevelt are then considered bad since your pov claims "all Democrats are bad"? Especially Franklin Roosevelt, but urll for sure appreciate the SS income and Medicare when u turn into a raisin later on. Oh and all the welfare program too

[@ofeliavaldesjohnson2897]

Do you think republicans care? Lol

[@MarkGrijalva]

Long , long time ago

[@olvidomemoriahistori]

Excellent report, Congratulations

[@SkyKings24-e4i]

Ronald Reagan, You don’t need no green card, you don’t need no drivers licenses, you don’t need no passport!? Just come on in.

[@noviceprepper5397]

thank you for sharing these experiences. it will help us work harder to create laws to protect the more vulnerable of us. best regards.

[@reedbetweenthelines1385]

Just another broken promise. Guadalupe hidalgo anyone??

[@sirloin869]

yesterday,today,and tomorrow...

[@joelmontana8055]

We not going nowhere, we getting our land soon or later. Keep coming this is our home .

[@arthurdiaz9184]

Maybe Democracy Now can do a video on what happened to the Tejano’s in 1800’s after the civil war when Texas became a state. 1000’s of them were murdered for their land & ranches. Then paid their widows peanuts for the land. The badly beaten Slave owners had lost their slaves so they needed a new hustle. I first learned of this from a lady that got this info. from the archives in DC. So it’s all documented.

[@OfficeMusic]

The US stole Texas from Mexico to expand slave-holding states. Mexico had outlawed slavery years before and forbade the slavers like Houston from exploiting their slaves and he wouldn't have it so proposed the rebellion to the US as a way to expand and to the slave owners to extend their slaves owning lands. This historical moment lead to the US Civil War.

[@liberalinoklahoma1888]

My mother and her siblings found out they were American citizens in their 40s, my mother having spent years trying to 'become a citizen' again, I was informed I did not need all the paperwork I had to have then had to have because both my parents were American citizens, by then I had spent all my youth working in the fields all over the West.

[@Gman767]

And they were descendants of a population of people who were here before in the southwest of our country that was taken from Mexico by the United States invasion.

[@calikidag1571]

They should teach this in high school also should teach about that historic tree that you guys have in Texas that was used for "mexicans only" and made a parade of it. And didn't stop lynching mexicans until 1970s just how u.s citizens of mexican decent also kept being deported till 1960s

[@SmileyToons82]

Whaf a sad world and country we live in now

[@chuylopez8793]

I knew of a lady that was 9 when she was deported being born american citizen from Arizona she was 88 in 2001 and she remembered her teacher! She tried to get her citizenship back was denied

[@Jose_L_Lopez]

Few people knows that California, Nevada, Utah, Nuevo México, mayor parts of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming were Mexican territory before 1848. Territory lost as a result of an invasion and war.

[@juanguzman6710]

My grandparents came to Texas and they did work legally to help when second war and they were working helping the united state and we found that they were legal thats whats happen to them too my father was born here on Texas and any way they send them back to Mexico unbelievable what happen to them and at the time that I remember the united states did said that those people that were helping the USA working the united states were going to granted emigration and what happen they were deported is a terbel how political people portraits all etnicst is bad ...

[@romanalara1220]

Maybe, Mexico should reclaim their land.

[@ZFern9390]

They can't even manage what they have.

[@JosephMarquez-pj9dp]

Chinese were deported back to China under the Chinese exclusion act in the 19th centuary. What is interesting to say the least, the Chrokees were removed from their land by military force. The military was also used to remove the Japanese and placed them in interment camps. Trump is going to order the military to do the same. In the 1950"s both Mexicans and Filipinos were deported during the Eisenhower administration. Many of them fought in the II WW and many veterans of the iraq and Afganistan wars were also deported to Mexico. Trump has said even citizens will be affected by his massive deportation program. Then why enlist in the military?

[@OfficeMusic]

This never stopped. They had deportations during the 1950s and will also deport US citizens of mexican descent in the 1980s. Therer is a funny movie with Cheech Marin showing this injustice, Born in East LA.

[@PapaMagnum]

So many white nationalists here who so obviously didn't read the title of the video.

[@thisorthat411]

So many Democrats here don't know their President Franklin delanor Roosevelt who signed in this policy. The great deal was the expulsion of Hispanic citizens

[@PapaMagnum]

@@thisorthat411 pretty sure it started in 1929 and peaked in 1931 then ended under FDR, which is easy to find out under a cursory Google search But good thing I'm not a Democrat anyway because parties are for idiots

[@thisorthat411]

@@PapaMagnum simple Google search we'll tell it ended in 1939. Followed by Japanese internment in a couple years. I don't believe it is stupid to group together with people that have similar ideas of how to run the country. I think that would be wise. Now I am a registered independent. I have voted Republican probably 99% of my life but I am loyal to no one but my family and Friends. If someone breaks into my house I don't ask what political party they are part of. It does blow my mind that the Democrat Party the party of slavery KKK Jim Crow Trail of Tears Japanese internment and probably a ton of other atrocities has been revamped. How does the party of cancel culture explain this? They want you in the police because it started as slave catching but it can't change. Nothing can be redeemed once it has been tainted yet the Democrat Party stands as a reminder of their hypocrisy. What do you think

[@PapaMagnum]

@@thisorthat411 I think you're a dumbass who's trying to make this a party issue rather than a white supremacist issue

[@PapaMagnum]

@@thisorthat411 also, it ended in 1936

[@albwilso9]

Jesus, that is exactly like the Nazis loading people on Trains and taking them away!!!

[@fredschoemaker7042]

It happens every 50 YEARS

[@armandomendoza8621]

Hypocrite he help his wife to get green card and her mom and dad to be Americans😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@TrishStClair]

Yeah, the mom who left behind 3 kids was a really bad dude. People who fall for his propaganda are fools

[@P.ONSUREZ84]

IS THIS WHY WE ARE PROGRAMMED TO SAY GOD BLESS MERIKKKA? 🤔

[@Jilla0559]

That was not true Immigration numbers were very low when Trump came in office in 2016

[@Frank-k7r]

Here we go again with this country of evils finding..about this country every time we seek what’s going wrong 😑 with this country

[@esperanzablasvalencia3008]

Tierras robadas siempre serán tierras robadas.los invasores llegaron en barcos.❤❤

[@Alina-ws6ob]

A movie needs to be made of this.

[@jesseresendez1809]

Ty Amy meany blessings 🙏

[@jessietinch9145]

SOMEBODY NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT TRUMP !!!!!!

[@Priva_C]

Trump is already setting the stage to start with the hatians

[@peaceearth2903]

Get them OUT👣👣👣🚔

[@Priva_C]

@@peaceearth2903 Unfortunately it's not just one group and majority will be hardworking men, women and innocent children doing more good than harm

[@Squeenix1]

Right-wing fascists would love for this to happen again.

[@Armyjayden33]

Sure would

[@barbararenaud]

Thankyou!

[@victoralosi1461]

How many were sent back to Mexico under Obama , lots and lots .

[@XxMayhem88]

Yea including US veterans of Hispanic Descendant

[@Live_love_laugh_withme]

If you know your history you would know that it takes years to see results. And do you remember who was president before him

[@victoralosi1461]

@@Live_love_laugh_withme yes I do .

[@ronaldotto534]

Thank America for causing PTSD in every alleyway and every avenue. Totally sucks

[@christinet6336]

After reading some of the comments, I'm a bit perplexed as to why so many don't understand why so many Hispanic/Latino American men voted for Trump. Keep in mind that mass unvetted migration and the economy deeply affect the Latino American Middle, Lower Middle, and Working Classes just like it does for every other racial or ethnic American group. Though migrants enter the United States from everywhere, the vast majority come from Central or South American countries. Most are blending into existing Latino-American-dominated cities and neighborhoods. That means job and resource competition and safety concerns. If you're an American father who lives in a predominately Latino American city or neighborhood and you have young sons and daughters, your children's safety is at risk... There have been many young Latino American girls who have been brutally assaulted and unalived by unvetted men coming into this country. There are gang members coming into this country who will, if they haven't already, start targeting Latino American tween and teen boys for gang recruitment or mistaken identity. There's a lot at stake here. What happened in the 1930s was tragic and should NEVER have happened. That said, this isn't 1930, and there are serious issues that need to be addressed regarding mass unvetted immigration and how it impacts this country and the Americans in it.

[@plumeriajoy]

VOTE BLUE. If not history might repeat . Even if we are citizens.😢

[@jezzie1965]

I’m a Mescalero Apache and have roots across the border if they want to kick me out I’d be happy to go less taxes better life less stress 😂😂😂

[@a1-tk9ic]

Or they might reassign you a new reservation in Oklahoma

[@jezzie1965]

@@a1-tk9icyou can keep your Oklahoma our Rez stretches from Phoenix to West NM and we were Mexicans to begin with 😂

[@danieldelrancho5749]

Well, we’re back now ❤

[@tomdlc9321]

Trump wants to do the same thing again.

[@horseaholic62]

It wasn’t a Repatriation it was an expulsion. Land owners home owners were expelled from the country for the sole reason of being of Spanish descent.

[@Live_love_laugh_withme]

My husband is white and even though I’m born in California. We have kids. This is what he fears most

[@mrhicks957]

If you are legal you have nothing to worry about. This is fear mongering

[@luciancastillo1337]

Only 100k views in 7 years but millions on shii that has no real importance or value

[@StuartDeBolt]

@1:35 Such skinny tires for that heavy load, but what a way to go!

[@Samy-c8o]

djt needs prison time ⌚ 😊😊😊

[@josenunez964]

Vote Democrat....or let's carry our citizenship papers so don't end up in Mexico....Trump is dangerous man

[@staatsfeindlich9939]

The haters can't stand rational discussion. Make America Hate Again.

[@ottoelelhuitzilihuitl3088]

Americans hate because are manipulated and brainwashed by radical hatemongers

[@bijoubijoux5185]

"Hate". You sound like a hippie.

[@Robert-lb5st]

There's plenty of people 🤡 making america hate again

[@jlpsuroeste]

Need a memorial in Pocatello Idaho.

[@cbbcbb6803]

I think that Jonathan Kozol wrote about this in one of his books.