Flow of migrants leaving U.S. just like the 1930s, says commentator

‘There is this old saying that historians don’t like to use, but here it is: History does repeat itself,’ said Francisco Balderrama, a professor at Cal State Los Angeles who helped chronicle the 1930s exodus of Mexicans from the United States in the book ‘Decade of Betrayal,’ in this Dallas Morning News report. ‘Indeed it has. In the last three years, more than 500,000 Mexicans have been repatriated from the U.S. If their U.S.-citizen children joined them, that total is much higher. ‘The scope of the current exodus has historians and policymakers delving deeper into the almost-forgotten history of the 1930s deportations.’