We see oppression in the U.S the whole time either with brown or black people for the most irrelevant things but, on this specific occasion we see oppression towards the Latino community especially with the pachuco men who was been oppressed by the government back in the 1940s. The government felt threated by these pachuco men because they felt that a new movement was going to start, the easiest way to get rid of them was by sending them to jail without any crime committed. As we see in the film “Zoot Suit” Henry got sent to jail with his friends for a crime that they were not part of, but for the fact that they had the look of a gangster the police immediately assumed that they were responsible for the crime. Luis Valdez did a great on showing
