Tonight, the history department of @lsccyfair hosted Dr. Francisco Balderrama, Professor Emeritus from California State University, Los Angeles, who spoke on the timely and important subject of the unconstitutional deportation of 1.2 million American citizens of Mexican heritage during the 1930s. Let it never happen again. #americanhistory #mexicanamericanhistory #mexicanrepatriation #protectthefourteenthamendment #fourteenthamendment #neveragain #franciscobalserrama (at Lone Star College–CyFair) https://www.instagram.com/p/BplJYmWlRVI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=bxen3aa71p4r

The mass deportation of Mexicans has been tried before. Herbert Hoover used racially inspired anti-immigrant sentiment after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to justify #MexicanRepatriation. The Saturday Evening Post was the propaganda of choice which stirred white America into a frenzy. As many as 2 million "Mexicans" were harassed, tortured and deported from 1929 to 1930, some of them legal US Citizens who didn't speak Spanish. Yes, #HistoryRepeatsItself when the masses choose to stay ignorant. #EducateYourself