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PLZZZ HELPP: Compare the ways in which the New Deal helped African Americans and Native Americans during the Great Depression. Then, contrast this help with the government’s treatment Mexican Americans and Asian Americans during the same period.

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The Great Depression of the 1930s hit Mexican immigrants especially hard. Along with the job crisis and food shortages that affected all U.S. workers, Mexicans and Mexican Americans had to face an additional threat: deportation. As unemployment swept the U.S., hostility to immigrant workers grew, and the government began a program of repatriating immigrants to Mexico. Immigrants were offered free train rides to Mexico, and some went voluntarily, but many were either tricked or coerced into repatriation, and some U.S. citizens were deported simply on suspicion of being Mexican. All in all, hundreds of thousands of Mexican immigrants, especially farm workers, were sent out of the country during the 1930s--many of them the same workers who had been eagerly recruited a decade before.

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