American Mass Deportation | Extra Context
Added 2025-10-21 17:30:02 +0000 UTC📜 Welcome, Extra Historians to our American Mass Deportation, Extra Context video! Where we talk about the mistakes we made and the details we couldn't quite squeeze into our series. With questions like, was California really a part of Mexico? How is there no way to prove your American Citizenship? And why couldn't you use Operation Dryfont?
Recommended Reading for this series:
The Deportation Machine by Adam Goodman
Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity by David Gutierrez
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae M. Ngai
Harvest of Lonliness, a 56 minute documentary on the Bracero Program. Can be found online.
Kimber M. Quinney, “Teaching the History of the Cold War through the Lens of Immigration,” The History Teacher.
Kelly Lytle Hernández, “The Crimes and Consequences of Illegal Immigration: A Cross-Border Examination of Operation Wetback, 1943 to 1954,” Western Historical Quarterly.
Douglas Massey, “The Mexico-U.S. Border in the American Imagination,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.
Astor, A., "Unauthorized Immigration, Securitization, and the Making of Operation Wetback," Latino Studies.
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Comments
Honestly I do get how people can really hate how deportation runs Honestly, and yes I'm a center right Republican who had voted for Trump on the whole immigration issue but I'll be completely honest I support the ends just not the means, the ends being that the USA is rid of Mexican criminals and drug dealers as well as illegal trespassers into the USA, but I don't support the means in which a small group of people (specifically ICE) is just deporting anyone they deem Mexican without the allowance of being able to collect their passports, visas, or anything to defend their stay is one of those means that I don't like nor support but as others say it, "It is what it is, and we have to live with it".
Gage Hardesty
2025-10-22 18:16:13 +0000 UTCOn demonising enemies, I remember translating Pliny the younger letters to the emperor, and reply what to do about Christians, and if I remember correctly the Christians were accused of eating/sacrificing children. This was more than 50 years ago in Latin 4.
John E. Coughlan
2025-10-22 13:41:30 +0000 UTC
