Reparations for Deported Latinos?

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Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005 11:32 a.m. EDT

Reparations for Deported Latinos?

Responding to a little-known chapter in U.S. history, the Assembly yesterday voted to establish a state fund that could be used to pay reparations to survivors of a massive deportation of Latinos in the 1930s.

By a 41-23 vote, lawmakers approved a bill by Sen. Joe Dunn, D-Garden Grove, that also would create a 16-member commission to make recommendations to the governor and Legislature on how to redress the deportations.

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It would take subsequent legislation to appropriate money for the fund, however.

The bill is a response to a Hoover administration policy that attempted to remove illegal immigrants to open up jobs during the Depression.

But most of the 2 million people who were deported to Mexico were U.S. citizens or legal immigrants, bill supporters say. Of the 400,000 Californians deported, some returned and fewer than 5,000 now live in the state.

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