During the Depression, state and local governments in the United States decided that one way to ensure jobs for white workers was to deport more than a million Mexican Americans, at least a third of whom were U.S. citizens.

We speak with Kevin Johnson, professor of law at the University of California in Davis. His most recent book is "Opening the Floodgates: Why America Needs to Rethink its Border and Immigration Laws".

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