Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican Americ Julie Abery about Belonging and Being accepted

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Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican Americ Julie Abery about Belonging and Being acceptedA moving portrait of a grim period in American immigration history, when approximately one million ethnic Mexicans mostly women and children who were US citizens were forced to relocate across the southern border. From 1921 to 1944, approximately one million ethnic Mexicans living in the United States were removed across the border to Mexico. What officials called repatriation was in fact banishment: 60 percent of those expelled were US citizens,