Question

This excerpt describes an instance of deportation during the 1930s as part of a repatriation effect. Why did the federal government implement repatriation

Answer 1

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"They wanted us out of the country. I didn't understand why when we'd been born here."

Emilia Castaneda was born in Los Angeles to Mexican parents. In 1935, she and her father and brother were forced to board a train bound for Mexico.  

This excerpt describes an instance of deportation during the 1930s as part of a repatriation effort. Why did the federal government implement repatriation?

To fulfill the terms of a global peace treaty

To protect national security

To reduce competition for jobs

To prevent communist influence on labor unions

Answer: To reduce competition for jobs

Explanation:

The repatriation was part of several actions aligned with the prevailing anti-Mexican idea that claimed that the solution to the growing unemployment of the US population caused by the Great Depression was to leave non-Americans out of the job competition. In addition to laws restricting employment opportunities to native-born or naturalized citizens, the repatriation sent around a million people of Mexican origin out of the United States.