Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s

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Authors: Balderrama, Francisco E. (1948-) and Rodríguez, Raymond  (1926-2013)

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 1995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book and Dust Jacket Good to Very Good.  As new.  In mylar.

Notes: Herbert Hoover “American jobs for real Americans.”  An estimated million American citizens and legal immigrants of Mexican descent were deported to Mexico in the so-called “repatriation movement” of the 1930s.  The administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower launched a military-style campaign in the summer of 1954 seeking to remove Mexican immigrants who were in the country illegally, sometimes referred to as “Operation Wetback.”  And Donald Trump, speaking in Ankeny, Iowa, in September 2023, said, “Following the Eisenhower model, we will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”  What is it with these people?  What are they afraid of?  In a nation made up of immigrants and Native Americans they’re swimming against the tide.  VERY RARE  in hardcover.  No other hardcover copies available for sale.  For an obituary of Raymond Rodriguez see https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/lbpresstelegram/name/raymond-rodriguez-obituary?id=18380190