Why don't schools teach about the Mexican Deportation of the 1930s?

Question

Close to 2 million Mexican and Mexican-Americans were deported to Mexico in the 1930s

http://campusapps.fullerton.edu/news/2005/valenciana.html

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-04-04-1930s-deportees-cover_x.htm

Schools teach history about the African-American Slavery, Japanese Interment Camps, and The Jewish Holocaust. So why is it then, that they do not teach about the Mexican Deportation?

60 percent of the people deported were children who were born in America and others who, while of Mexican descent, were LEGAL citizens. Maybe 40 percent of them did not belong here, but what do you tell the other 60 percent that did belong here?

Answer 1

Mexican deportations are not being taught in schools in order not to offend Mexicans that comprise a great portion of the US population.

Answer 2

The Mexicans who were deported during Operation Wet-back, and other mass deportations were not ENSLAVED OR KILLED OR HARMED IN ANY WAY!

Deportation is NOT a "holocaust", or "imprisonment", or "slavery".

Africans were BROUGHT to the USA to be slaves (most of them brought in by hispanic slave traders), they did not come here ILLEGALLY to live.
The Japanese put in "internment camps" were LEGAL immigrants, they were United States CITIZENS, and Japan had ATTACTED THE USA, in an act of war, the USA was AT WAR WITH JAPAN. The rights of legal US citizens of Japanese heritage is at question.

The USA had NOTHING to do with the "Jewish holocaust". THAT WAS GERMANY. The USA ENDED that war, with it's allied nations, freeing jews from the concentration camps, in fact the USA altered it's immigration quotas during the years of war with Germany to take in Jewish refugies.

Mexicans who were deported WERE NOT LEGAL IMMIGRANTS. THEY HAD NO RIGHTS TO BE IN THE USA.

GET IT?

The USA has immigration laws, if Mexicans cannot respect our laws, or our borders, then they get DEPORTED. THAT IS THE LAW.
There is nothing "wrong" about deporting any Mexicans, or any other criminals who violate our immigration laws.

Immigrate LEGALLY, or stay OUT!
If you are in the USA illegally, GET OUT!

edit: 60% were ANCHOR BABIES (maybe.... that could be hearsay at this point. It sounds like hysteria to me) so their parents were ILLEGAL ALIENS who got deported, and rightfully so. SO the US born anchor babys were deported with their parents. And what is your problem with that? It's not a problem for me.

edit: to chingon, better get a REAL education insead of that crap MEChA spews out. As a US native American indian, whose ancestors actually LIVED on US land before the hispanic/latinos came from EUROPE and STOLE it, then Mexico STOLE it, let me give you a little education.:
This land, which is now the USA, was the land of our US native American indian tribes, and NONE of them were ever "mexican", or "aztec", or "mayan", or "mexicano", or "mexica", or "meztiso", or chicano, or cholo, or vato, or esa, or homie.
The homeland of hispanics is in EUROPE.
The homeland of mexican indians is SOUTH of the Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers.

Bear, you know where "scalping" came from?
It started with the tribes in the southwest, comanche and apache, they learned it from watching the hispanics, after they invaded and they were skinning native American indians alive.
Our US tribes modified the hispanic torture, they just took the scalp and hair, they weren't quite as brutal as the hispanic conquestadores were. Those catholics just loved torture, they had it down to a science.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The winners write history. The illegals are the Europeans and non native Americans who came here by boat, plane, or on rafts. So the best thing to do since no one person or group owns mother earth is ti trade, make love, and move on to the next planet we can all screw up together.

Answer 5

As Fraginal said, it is likely due to not wanting to offend the large percentage of students of Mexican heritage in the school system. However, if this is part of "American history," then it should be included. I am very tired of our country trying so hard to not offend people from other cultures and nationalities. What has happened, has happened, and it should be talked about and taught in our schools as American history.

Answer 6

Actually, it is more like a million. And it was nothing like slavery, internment or the Holocaust, because foreigners were only being sent back home.

However, they were sloppy, and for those instances of sending those who had a right to be here, they paid in court.

(Your 60% figure is ludicrous, however.)

Answer 7

It should be taught in Schools. Like El Alamo, Columbus or other episodes during the Imperialistic Wars against Latino-Catholic Mexicans.

Answer 8

So they sent Mexicans down south on a free train ride. Big deal.

Answer 9

Selective propaganda.Did you ever hear of a Yankee purse?Pertaining to Native Americans.Soldiers,would cut off a Indian women's breast,sew a snap on it and put their change in it.

I was never taught that in school,I was told that by American Indian friend.He was a Chief in the Six Nations.

Answer 10

Depends on the syllabus and this sometimes changes because of pressure from special interest groups.

Why don't you suggest it as a project or set up an interesting website? I personally haven't heard of this before but will chase it up on the web.