GEOG 50AC Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Mexican Repatriation, Executive Order 9066, Fred Korematsu
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Wagner reading: "america"s forgotten history of illegal deportations" Herbert hoover in the 1920s and 1930s slashed immigration by almost 90% Trump has called immigrants "gang members, drug dealers and criminals" that "prey on our very innocent citizens"ms. During the hoover era, they started deporting people with "mexican-sounding" names. Many of the people who were sent "home" to mexico were united states citizens who had been born in the country. There were raids in many cities like los angeles where there were large numbers of mexicans and mexican-born americans. Trump"s administration has directed the hiring of 10,000 new immigration and customs. He does this through noting the amount of people who were deported although they were born in the united states during. Hoover"s administration and warns americans today of the possibility of history repeating. 120,000 japanese-americans were rounded up and put into concentration camps under.
