Driven out: Mexican Americans still haunted by a forced repatriation

by laurascott | November 29, 2006 at 08:56 am
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Francisco Balderrama, professor at California State University and co-author of Decade of Betrayal, estimates that somewhere in the region of a million people of Mexican origin were driven out of the United States during the 1930s. Nearly two thirds of those who left were US citizens.
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