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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 723419" data-attributes="member: 12952">In 1929,President Herbert Hoover authorized the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation" target="_blank">Mexican Repatriation</a> program. To combat rampant&nbsp; unemployment, the burden on municipal aid services, and remove people&nbsp; seen as usurpers of American jobs, the program was largely a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_migration" target="_blank">forced migration</a> of approximately 500,000 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicans" target="_blank">Mexicans</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Americans" target="_blank">Mexican Americans</a> to Mexico. The&nbsp; program continued through 1937.The Mexican Repatriation refers to a forced migration that took&nbsp; place between 1929 and 1939, when as many as one million people of&nbsp; Mexican descent were forced or pressured to leave the US.These actions were authorized by President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover" target="_blank">Herbert Hoover</a> and targeted areas with large <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" target="_blank">Hispanic</a> populations, mostly&nbsp; in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" target="_blank">California</a>,&nbsp; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas" target="_blank">Texas</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado" target="_blank">Colorado</a>,&nbsp; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois" target="_blank">Illinois</a>&nbsp; and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan" target="_blank">Michigan</a>.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 723419, member: 12952"] In 1929,President Herbert Hoover authorized the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation"]Mexican Repatriation[/URL] program. To combat rampant unemployment, the burden on municipal aid services, and remove people seen as usurpers of American jobs, the program was largely a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_migration"]forced migration[/URL] of approximately 500,000 [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicans"]Mexicans[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Americans"]Mexican Americans[/URL] to Mexico. The program continued through 1937. The [B]Mexican Repatriation[/B] refers to a forced migration that took place between 1929 and 1939, when as many as one million people of Mexican descent were forced or pressured to leave the US. These actions were authorized by President [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover"]Herbert Hoover[/URL] and targeted areas with large [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans"]Hispanic[/URL] populations, mostly in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California"]California[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas"]Texas[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado"]Colorado[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois"]Illinois[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan"]Michigan[/URL]. [/QUOTE]

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