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There is a lot of information at this link, stuff I did not know:
Trump's deportation idea similar to 1930s mass removals
There is more at the link, you should read it all.
Now, there are differences here: the 1930s "repatriations" were of legal US citizens. What Trump is proposing is aimed at illegal immigrants. But the tenor of this stuff sounds very, very familiar to me.
I just don't see how the GOP can even get 20% of the Latino vote in 2016 if it keeps this stuff up.
Soon, a plethora of Latino polling will be coming out and I suspect that the results are going to look very, very grim for the GOP, and not just for Donald Trump in particular.
Discuss. Are you aware of the 1930s repatriations?
Trump's deportation idea similar to 1930s mass removals
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's call for mass deportation of millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, as well as their American-born children, bears similarities to a large-scale removal that many Mexican-American families faced 85 years ago.
During the Great Depression, counties and cities in the American Southwest and Midwest forced Mexican immigrants and their families to leave the U.S. over concerns they were taking jobs away from whites despite their legal right to stay.
The result: Around 500,000 to 1 million Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans were pushed out of the country during the 1930s repatriation, as the removal is sometimes called.
During that time, immigrants were rounded up and sent to Mexico, sometimes in public places and often without formal proceedings. Others, scared under the threat of violence, left voluntarily.
About 60 percent of those who left were American citizens, according to various studies on the 1930s repatriation. Later testimonies show families lost most of their possessions and some family members died trying to return. Neighborhoods in cities such as Houston, San Antonio and Los Angeles became empty.
There is more at the link, you should read it all.
Now, there are differences here: the 1930s "repatriations" were of legal US citizens. What Trump is proposing is aimed at illegal immigrants. But the tenor of this stuff sounds very, very familiar to me.
I just don't see how the GOP can even get 20% of the Latino vote in 2016 if it keeps this stuff up.
Soon, a plethora of Latino polling will be coming out and I suspect that the results are going to look very, very grim for the GOP, and not just for Donald Trump in particular.
Discuss. Are you aware of the 1930s repatriations?