Mass deportation of Mexican Americans

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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