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American citizens have been caught up in mass deportations since at least the 1930s, which makes these tribal events civil rights issues:

"Mass deportations of Mexican immigrants from the U.S. date to the Great Depression, when the federal government began a wave of deportations rather than include Mexican-born workers in New Deal welfare programs. According to historian Francisco Balderrama, the U.S. deported over 1 million Mexican nationals, 60 percent of whom were U.S. citizens of Mexican descent, during the 1930s."

www.history.com/news/operation-wetback-eisenhower-1954-deportation

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