Drug trafficker Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada has asked Mexico to seek his repatriation, after facing the possibility of being ...

8:36 p.m. Feb. 6, 2025: A previous version of this article described Guadalupe Espinoza as a lecturer at Cal State Long Beach. She is a lecturer at Cal State Fullerton. For the first nine years of her ...

People of Mexican descent, including U.S.-born citizens, were put on trains and buses and deported to Mexico during the Great Depression. In Los Angeles, up to 75,000 were deported by train in one ...

IT IS FREE, BUT REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. NEW EFFORTS AT THE STATE CAPITOL TO RECOGNIZE A DARK CHAPTER IN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CALIFORNIA HISTORY. LAWMAKERS ARE CALLING FOR THE STATE TO PLACE A STATUE ...

More than 80 years after their predecessors helped push people of Mexican descent out of Los Angeles County, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to issue a formal apology. Supervisor ...

In an often-hidden part of the American past, an estimated million American citizens and legal immigrants of Mexican descent were deported to Mexico in the so-called "repatriation movement" of the ...

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This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Donald Trump has proposed immigration reform that would include building a wall on the Mexican border, paid for by Mexico, and calls for the mass deportation of ...

To fix America’s “immigrant problem,” a million Mexican immigrants and their children, 600,000 of them U.S. citizens, were removed. Orphans, the sick, the unemployed and others were rounded up, given ...

As her junior year of high school came to a close in 2023, Tamara Gisiger’s history teacher tasked the class with a research project of their choosing. A then-17-year-old Gisiger narrowed in on what ...