There was a raid in a park in Los Angeles in February of 1931 in which they literally rounded up all the folk in that park who appeared to be of Mexican descent, put them on flatbed trucks under armed guard to Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, on a train that was under lock and key and literally forced them on and—onto the train, and the train took them to the interior of Mexico.

“Remembering California’s ‘Repatriation Program’” All Things Considered, Jan. 2, 2006

Last week, Los Angeles joined California in issuing a formal apology for the “repatriations,” which sent 2 million people from the U.S. to Mexico, about 60 percent of them U.S. citizens.

(via angelawublog)