"Today we are seeing the same kind of hateful, vile rhetoric coming from political leaders, actually calls for mass deportation. And I think many people think, oh, that's just rhetoric that will never happen. We're here to say this happened in the past and obviously could happen again."
"Historians say more than a million people were forced to go to Mexico, and more than half of them were American citizens. Some families were coerced into 'self-deporting.'"
#mexican-repatriation #california-politics #immigration-history #mass-deportation #historical-commemoration
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