Download They Should Stay There: The Story of Mexican Migration and Repatriation During the Great Depression AudioBook Free
While Mexicans were hopeful for economical reform following a Mexican trend, by the 1930s, many Mexican nationals possessed already changed north and were living in the United States in another of the 20th century's most considerable movements of migratory employees. Fernando Saúl Alanis Enciso provides an illuminating backstory that demonstrates how liquid and controversial the immigration and labor situation between Mexico and the United States is at the 20th century and continues to be in the 21st. When the Great Depression took hold, the United States stepped up its enforcement of immigration laws and required more than 350,000 Mexicans, including their US-born children, to come back with their home country. As the Mexican government was fearful of the producing economic implications, Leader Lázaro Cárdenas fostered the repatriation work for typically symbolic reasons associated with home politics. In clarifying the repatriation episode through the bigger background of Mexican home and foreign insurance policy, Alanis attaches the dots between the aftermath of the Mexican trend and the relentless politics tumult adjoining today's borderlands immigration issues.
