Expulsion of U.S. Citizens
In the 1920s, the expulsion was limited to Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas, but from the 1930s to the 1940s, it expanded ... all ยป nationwide. The nationwide expulsion began February 26, 1931, as INS agents sealed off La Placita Park on Olvera in Los Angeles, California, a week later 400 Mexicans were deported from Los Angeles to Mexico; by August 50,000 were arrested nationwide, by 1940, 1.2 million had been arrested nationwide and deported by trains and/or ships to Mexico. In addition, the mas