While the phrase “Mexican deportation” might sound like something out of today’s news, this actually happened in 1930. After being accused of, “usurping “Americans” from jobs during the Depression,” over 400,000 Mexicans were deported, including many who had been granted US Citizenship.

Yes, you’re reading that correctly; the US government, at one point not that many years ago, actually deported its own citizens…all because they were originally born somewhere else.