Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s
California Migration Museum
Sometimes the history we choose to remember hides a history we’re supposed to forget. Today, La Placita stands as one of LA’s most popular tourist attractions: rainbow papel picado fluttering overhead, a stuffed donkey for photo opps, and some of the best churros in town. What’s not so visible is the fact that, in February 1931, the first mass public immigration raid in US history took place here, ushering in a decade of Mexican American "repatriation.” The majority of those forced to leave are US-born children. As narrator Karla Estrada tells us, this story still resonates today, in her own experience of family separation across the border.
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