Mexican Deportation In The 1930 Analysis

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One detail that startle me the most was the article “Mexican deportation in the 1930s.” Which refers to the detail that the police did not care if you were allowed to be in the United States legally. If they saw you and were a Mexican, as soon as they spotted you, you were gone. This was a piece of information that startled me because it makes me see the racism in between how people see mexicans as. It also goes more into depth about the way they are being thought as, which is less worthy of respects and right on spotted as to be gone.

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