betsy: Am I understanding you correctly that they were carrying their passports and they were deported anyhow? Just trying to gauge how big of a panic attack I need to have.

If you are not visibly white, then you're going into the truck whether you've got your papers or not Many of the children who were separated from their families at the southern border had the legal right to be here as refugees. That didn't stop the govt from kidnapping them anyway

when Trump sends his forces around to deport millions of people, they will not legally be allowed to deport US citizens, and *that won't matter*. when the armed man says you have to get in a truck, you're going in the truck. and the law won't help you fast enough if it helps at all.

My friend’s dad and uncles were deported to Mexico *multiple times* from 1930s-1950s in the Sacramento valley. All of them were US citizens. Most of them even carried their passports starting in the 40s. It didn’t matter that they spoke English and people on the street knew them.

Am I understanding you correctly that they were carrying their passports and they were deported anyhow? Just trying to gauge how big of a panic attack I need to have.

Yup. To my understanding, the first couple times, no ID on hand because nobody really carried it. This story is sooo common for Mexican American families in the west. www.history.com/news/great-d...

The U.S. Deported a Million of Its Own Citizens to Mexico During the Great Depression | HISTORYwww.history.com Up to 1.8 million people of Mexican descent—most of them American-born—were rounded up in informal raids and deported in an effort to reserve jobs for white people.

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