Iehs: Mark Overmyer Velazquez, "From Repatriation to Deportation Nation"

This article focuses on the history of the relationship between the US and Mexico regarding immigration. In the 1930s, the U.S. government forced hundreds of thousands of ethnic Mexicans, including some U.S. citizens, back across the border in the largest "repatriation" movement in U.S. history. The numbers of "formal removals" have been climbing rapidly since 1996, the year President Clinton signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act.