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Posted on: August 23rd, 2006
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Tags: border, crime, police, Raids
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“When the Great Depression set in, Los Angeles, which had some 175,000 residents of Mexican descent, turned on the immigrants. Most were viewed as an economic threat, taking jobs and services away from cash-strapped Americans. Others were accused of increasing the city’s crime rate.
The xenophobia resulted in raids of Mexican communities by local police searching for proof of legal residence. A repatriation movement followed and quickly spread across America. As many as 1.2 million Mexican immigrants — legal and illegal — were driven out of the United States as intimidation replaced legal procedure.”
History, it is said, has a tendency to repeat itself. That is part of the reason we study it. Humans try to learn from their own past, but as a species we tend to forget quite a bit. I don’t know how the whole immigration quandary will be resolved or if it it will be but we need to be careful or history may repeat itself maybe not in this form but another.
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