To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (42415 ) 4/29/2013 3:05:21 PM From: DallasKevin Read Replies (1) | Respond to Case in point....my grandmother is still alive today, and she had kids during this period of time. And those people who were alive during this period passed on their beliefs to their children....who are our parents. It takes many generations for something like this to be extricated from a society's subconsciousness once it has taken root. How long did it take to overcome the racial prejudice against blacks after the end of slavery? Some argue that it is still in process today, though I believe that as a society, the US has overcome that issue."The State of California passed an "Apology Act" that estimated 2 million people were forced to relocate to Mexico and an estimated 1.2 million were US citizens." From these numbers you can see that this was not a small incident. And this exact same thing has been happening in places like Arizona today, where there is case after case of US Citizens being deported to Mexico."Luis Alberto Delgado, 19, a Texas-born U.S. citizen who was detained, questioned and deported to Matamoros, Mexico, in the middle of the night has been allowed to re-enter the United States, ending a nearly three-month ordeal. [He] was carrying his American birth certificate, Social Security card and Texas ID when he was pulled over in a routine traffic stop on June 17, "" Here we go again: A U.S.-born citizen deported from her own country. This time the case involves a 15-year-old girl who was sent packing from Houston to Colombia, according to published reports. Jakadrien Turner's case is complicated. This much is known, according to news reports. She lied to authorities about her identity. The false name she gave indicated that she was a Colombian woman, who appears to have been deportable. Turner, who speaks no English, remains in Latin America while officials in both countries figure out what to do."wrongfully detained and deported to Mexico and forced to live on the streets and in prisons for months, settled his case against the federal government this week.""The Repatriation is not widely discussed in American history textbooks; in a 2006 survey of the nine most commonly used American history textbooks in the United States, four did not mention the Repatriation, and only one devoted more than half a page to the topic." This is why you probably knew nothing about this. Again, remember that around half what we see as the continental United States today belonged to Mexico, so of course there were a lot of Mexicans living there.
