Mexican Repatriation
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The Mexican Repatriation was the repatriation or deportation of between 300,000 and 2 million Mexicans and Mexican-Americans from the United States during the Great Depre
People waving goodbye to a train departing Los Angeles with 1,500 Mexicans. (August 20, 1931)
California mother describes voluntary repatriation: "Sometimes I tell my children that I would like to go to Mexico, but they tell me, 'We don't want to go, we belong here.'" (1935 photograph by Dorothea Lange).
Martin Dies Jr.
William Doak, Secretary of Labor
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have se
Mexican Repatriation
…majority of formal deportations happened between 1930 and 1933, as part of a Hoover policy first mentioned in his 1930 State of the Union Address. After Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in 1933, his administration implemented softer immigration policies, and both formal and voluntary deportations reduced. Widely…
Campaign portrait, 1944
A young, unbreeched Roosevelt in 1884, aged 2
Eleanor and Franklin with their first two children, 1908
Roosevelt in 1912