Mexican Repatriation

What does Repatriation Mean?

• Being forced to go home
• Voluntarily Going home
• liberate a conquered country
• To be made a citizen of a country you are living in

Roughly how many people were deported between 1929-1940?

• 10,000
• 100,000
• 1 million
• 5 million

What percentage of the people deported were US citizens?

• 15%
• 90%
• 50%
• 60%

True or False: Mexican Americans who did not answer their repatriation letters were allowed to stay in the US?

• T
• F

What state were many Mexican immigrants removed from?

• Nevada

• Califonia

• Alaska

• Alabama

the act of bestowing or giving possession again under legal sanction

• deportation

• internment

• resettlement

the removal from a country of an alien whose presence is unlawful or prejudicial

• deportation

• internment

• resettlement