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 » 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