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"Decade of Betrayal is a book of revelation. It documents for the first time the difficulties faced by Mexicans who were forced from their homes in the United States back to Mexico during the Great Depression. This book will set the standard by which others are compared."--Professor John R. Wunder, Department of History, University of Nebraska Sixty years ago the anti-immigration picture in the United States was very much the same as it is today. However, in that "Decade of Betrayal" one million Mexicans and their American-born children were rounded up and deported from the U.S. Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s is the first book to study the effects of this mass deportation on both the U.S. and Mexican economies and societies. As the Depression engulfed the United States in the early 1930s, fear and anxiety spread that Mexicans were taking jobs and welfare benefits away from "real" Americans. Local, state, and national officials launched massive efforts to get rid of the Mexicans. Eventually more than a million were shipped back to Mexico. This book carefully appraises the impact of the forced relocation on both sides of the border. Mexicans and their children

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Author

Enriquez, Juan

Publisher

Crown;Archetype

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585187433

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Sociology

Rating

3.66 / 5 (69 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14