Migration Institute Reports 400,000 Mexicans Repatriated from US in 2012 Hispanically Speaking News
go to original August 19, 2013

Due to pressures from the Great Depression, over 1 million Mexicans were forced out of the country and back to Mexico during the 1930s. Of those repatriated, about 60% were U.S.-born American citizens. Several Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans left the U.S. for Mexico with the hope that there they would find not only a refuge from the economic struggles of the Great Depression, but also from the prejudice and discrimination that they had experienced in the U.S. However, most found that Mexico was not the haven they had hoped it would be. (Andrea D.)

Roughly 400,000 Mexican undocumented migrants were repatriated from the United States last year, according to the National Migration Institute, or INM.

The head of that agency, Ardelio Vargas, revealed those figures during a meeting last week with civil society organizations in the capital.

The groups taking part in the forum are pushing for a government aid program for migrants that would enable them to travel from the border back to their home communities after they have been deported.

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