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  • About Us
    • Our Mission Statement
    • Alameda Division
    • Burbank Division
    • Crenshaw Division
    • Contact Us
  • Kids Club
  • Supply Chain Journeys
    • Introduction to the Supply Chain Journeys
    • Supply Chain Journeys Podcast
  • Port of Los Angeles
    • Supply Chain Crisis
    • Natural History
    • Ti'ats And Natives People
    • The Cabrillo Expedition
    • The Rancho Era
    • The Battle of the Old Woman's Gun
    • Phineas Banning
    • The Free Harbor Fight
    • Working at a fish harbor
    • The San Pedro Strike Of 1923
    • Life on Terminal Island
    • Upton Sinclair on Liberty Hill
    • Terminal Island and Japanese Interment
    • Globalization
    • Life on a Container Ship
    • Automation
  • Museum Store
  • Director and Board
  • More...
    • Old Exhibits
      • LA Playlist
      • Zoot Suit Riots
        • Introduction
        • Native and Spanish
        • Mexico and United States
        • Refugees and Barrios
        • Repatriation and Braceros
        • Jazz and Zoot Suits
        • Sleepy Lagoon and Police
        • The Trial and The Press
        • The Riots
        • Aftermath and Blame
        • SLDC and Release
        • Post-War Changes
        • Chicano Movement and Zoot Suit Play
        • Global Connections
        • Timeline & Biographies
        • Conclusion
      • Then and Now
      • The Los Angeles River
      • Memory and Mapping
      • The California Water Wars
      • Neighborhood Time Travel
      • Mulholland: The Musical
      • Fall 2020 Documentary

Repatriation and Braceros

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Mexican immigrants and their children, many of whom were American citizens, were forcibly deported to Mexico during the repatriation program.
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Braceros worked for extremely low pay and lived in inadequate houses, all while enduring terrible working conditions like the heat and long hours.
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During the bracero program, the United States brought Mexicans and those of Mexican descent (who had been previously kicked out of the country) back into America to work on farms and compensate for the lack of workers due to World War II.
​The repatriation program was created in 1930 by the United States and its goal was to reduce the amount of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans living in the U.S. The president at the time, Herbert Hoover, implemented the repatriation program so that Americans could “have more jobs.” Most Mexican-Americans that were being sent away were born and raised in America and had never been to Mexico before. One boy said it as though he was being sent to Mars. The campaigns were very harsh and the government was doing whatever it takes to not have a single person of Mexican descent living in their country. Los Angeles alone had around 35,000 people that were pressured or forced to leave, which was ⅓ of the entire Hispanic population in the city. At the end of the repatriation Program, over 400,000 Hispanic people were deported out of America and sent to Mexico. 
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Authorized passes were required for Mexican immigrants to legally get into the U.S. via the Bracero program.
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Approximately one million Mexican immigrants were deported back to Mexico because Congress decided that they were overpopulating California and taking jobs away from white Anglos.
After the repatriation program, very few Mexicans and Mexican-Americans lived in California. However, when farmers joined the military during World War II, farms needed people to harvest the crops. To solve this problem, the U.S created the Bracero Program in order to bring immigrants back to the U.S from Mexico after they were deported during the repatriation act. The program successfully brought 4 to 5 million Mexicans to America. These immigrants were called braceros. Unfortunately, they were mistreated and exploited on the farms they worked on. Braceros were paid low wages, forced to work in dangerous conditions, and faced racial discrimination. Even some Mexicans and Mexican-Americans who were forced out of America in the 1930s because of the repatriation program applied for the Bracero Program. Since braceros constantly faced discrimination and weren't allowed proper homes or fair wages, it's obvious how racist America used to be at the time.
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