USCIS history office says INS role in 1930s Mexican repatriations was limited
The gist
The USCIS History Office says the INS mostly opened federal removal cases in only a relatively small number of 1930s cases.
The account challenges the common belief that the INS ran a mass repatriation program.
How it unfolded
- 1931In Los Angeles County, INS agents conducted raids and held removal hearings; in high-profile raids that year the agency arrested 389 deportable aliens, 269 of them Mexican.
- 1930sThe INS stepped up deportation efforts and on several occasions cooperated with local governments seeking to remove Mexicans from their jurisdictions.
- recentlyThe USCIS History Office published an account saying the INS instituted federal removal proceedings in only a relatively small number of cases.