[Vision2020] Precedent for Internment

[Tom Trail]

Visionaries:  I read with interest a short article in the June 2003 Asian
American Comparative Collection Newsletter.   The article was entitled,
Precedent for Internment?

During the Great Depression the U.S. government eacted the 
repatriation Program as an "austerity measure."  Directed against 
Mexicans in the U.S. especially Detroit, over one million people were 
deported to Mexico; 60% were American citizens (is this sounding 
familiar?)

Their descendants have researched this shameful, little-known episode 
and have produced "Los Repatriados:  Exiles from the Promisted Land," 
a project consisting of oral histories and a video, the latter based 
on immigration documents, congressional records, and newspaper 
articles, and on scholarly accounts by Dennis Valdes, Zaragosa, 
Vargas and others.  For more information contact Elena Herrada 
(emhgv@juno.com)

I was frankly amazed at this little known episode of American History, and it
can only make one wonder if we're headed down the same road again.

Tom Trail
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