Francisco Balderrama

Cal State LA; Co-Author of “A Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s”

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Professor of Chicano Studies at Cal State LA, and co-author of “A Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s”

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Like Donald Trump, Herbert Hoover campaigned on a promise of protecting American jobs by slashing the number of immigrants allowed to enter the U.S.

In the 1930s, US citizens were deported to Mexico because of their ancestry

Like Donald Trump, Herbert Hoover campaigned on a promise of protecting American jobs by slashing the number of immigrants allowed to enter the U.S.

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