Mexican Repatriation program

(noun)

A mass, forced migration that took place from 1929 through 1936, when between 500,000 and 2 million Mexicans and people of Mexican descent were forced or pressured to leave the U.S. The event, carried out by American authorities, took place without due process.

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Examples of Mexican Repatriation program in the following topics:

  • Hoover's Efforts at Recovery

    • In 1929, Hoover authorized a program of Mexican repatriation with the stated intention of combating rampant American unemployment, reducing the burden on municipal aid services, and removing people who were considered usurpers of American jobs.
    • The repatriation program, which continued through 1936, was a forced migration of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans over the southern border, with estimates ranging from 500,000 to 2 million deported.
    • This sentiment took precedence as the Depression continued, despite national statistics showing that less than 10 percent of people on welfare were Mexican or of Mexican descent.
    • Many employers fired Mexican workers and refused to hire others, causing an increase in unemployment in the Mexican community.
    • To pay for government relief programs and to make up for lost revenue, Hoover agreed to roll back several tax cuts his administration enacted on higher-bracket incomes.

  • Mexican Muralism

    • Mexican muralism can be defined as the mural painting which was used to promote nationalistic ideals as part of efforts to reunify the country under the post Mexican Revolution government.
    • The era from 1930-1945 in Mexico is best marked by Mexican muralism.
    • Mexican muralism started a tradition which continues to this day in Mexico.
    • At the time, most of the Mexican population was illiterate and the government needed a way to promote the ideals of the Mexican Revolution.
    • Vasconcelos helped establish a government-backed mural program, hiring the country's best artists, for this purpose.

  • Annexing Texas

    • Anglo-Americans soon became a majority in Texas and quickly became dissatisfied with Mexican rule.
    • Of greatest concern, however, was the Mexican government’s 1829 abolition of slavery.
    • However, American slaveholders in Texas distrusted the Mexican government and wanted Texas to be a new US slave state.
    • While Mexican President General Antonio López de Santa Anna, agreed to many of their demands, he did not grant statehood.
    • In keeping with the program of ethnic cleansing and white racial domination, Americans in Texas generally treated both Mexican Tejano and American Indian residents with contempt, eager to displace and dispossess them.

  • Sales Training

    • Employees will be required to undertake a set of specific training programs per year.
    • The type of resources invested may include time to learn, money to create programs and develop training materials, training effectiveness evaluation systems, etc.
    • The training of a salesperson who will be working in a country other than his or her own can be broken into three segments—pre-departure, on-site, and repatriation.
    • When the employee abroad returns, a repatriation program designed to reduce culture shock and to integrate the experience abroad is useful.

  • Employee training

    • There are also a number of other items that can impact the training system, things like what the training program is called.
    • Outdoor programs: the use of physical and mental activities such as ropes courses or problem-solving tasks that encourage the use of team work.
    • The training of an employee who will be working in a country other than his or her own can be broken into three segments—pre-departure, on-site, and repatriation.
    • When the employee abroad returns to his or her home country it is equally important that the company offer some form of repatriation program.
    • These programs are often most effectively carried out through mentor programs (Asheghian & Ebrahimi, 2005).

  • Toward a Welfare State

    • Prior to the Great Depression the United States had social programs that mostly centered around individual efforts, family efforts, church charities, business workers compensation, life insurance and sick leave programs along with some state tax supported social programs.
    • The misery and poverty of the great depression threatened to overwhelm all these programs.
    • Roosevelt's administration proposed to Congress federal social relief programs and a federally sponsored retirement program.
    • This program was expanded several times over the years.
    • Veterans of the US-Mexican War and Union veterans of the Civil War could receive pensions automatically at age 62, regardless of disability.

  • Civil Rights of Latinos

    • People of Mexican origin are now the largest foreign-born group in the United States.
    • While many Mexican and Latino immigrants enter the country legally, particularly through family reunification policies, a substantial number do not have legal-immigrant status — an estimated 700,000 new immigrants per year.
    • /Mexican border, and harsher enforcement of existing laws.
    • Current policy proposals aimed at reducing these rights violations include legislation to grant legal status to all children born in the U.S. as well as proposals for foreign worker programs that would grant legal status to foreign born laborers.

  • Conclusion: Change in the 1960s

    • The Mexican American civil rights movement, led largely by Cesar Chavez, also made significant progress at this time.
    • The emergence of the Chicano Movement signaled Mexican Americans’ determination to seize their political power, celebrate their cultural heritage, and demand their citizenship rights.
    • His social programs, investments in education, support for the arts, and commitment to civil rights changed the lives of countless people and transformed society in many ways.

  • Immigration Reform

    • They also argue that these immigrants jeopardize the safety of law enforcement officials and citizens, especially along the Mexican border.
    • These six sections are: (1) fixing border enforcement, (2) increasing interior enforcement, such as preventing visa overstays, (3) preventing people from working without a work permit, (4) creating a committee to adapt the number of visas available to changing economic times, (5) a type of amnesty program to legalize undocumented immigrants and (6) programs to help immigrants adjust to life in the United States.

  • Painting

    • When the Great Depression hit, president Roosevelt's New Deal created several public arts programs.
    • The purpose of the programs was to give work to artists and decorate public buildings, usually with a national theme.
    • The style of much of the public art commissioned by the WPA was influenced by the work of Diego Rivera and other artists of the contemporary Mexican muralismmovement.