Immigration Raids of the 1930s: Stark Photos from the Mexican Repatriation

During the depths of the Great Depression, American cities witnessed mass expulsions that would tear apart families and communities for generations. Between 1929 and 1939, somewhere between 300,000 and 2 million people of Mexican descent were forced or pressured to leave the United States—and shockingly, forty to sixty percent of them were American citizens, predominantly […]