repatriation

My own family’s story intersects with the 1930s repatriation.

You probably didn’t know L.A.’s repatriation story.

She asked about “all the mumbo jumbo” — the transmission information — at the top of the document; I was more interested in the content: records from the 1930s that detailed a shameful chapter in Los Angeles history — repatriation campaigns that targeted Mexican and Mexican American families.

Although we think of these repatriation drives as federally driven, they were largely enacted by local officials, a stark reminder that local governments have tremendous power to harm — but also to resist.

Repatriation hit all levels of society, but the poorest were the most vulnerable.