Monica group profile on Mexican Americans

Group Profile
It all started with a dramatic crash of the stock market. Nearly 25% of the Nation’s total work force are now unemployed. “No job, no hope”. Unemployment is causing many problems in our nation. Everyone has gone out of their homes in search for jobs.
More than 500,000 Mexican- Americans are being deported to have more jobs available. Before this great depression era Mexican American workers earned 75 cents an hour for picking cantaloupes. Now the wages have dropped to 15 cents an hour. Migrant farm workers of all races lived in temporary camp like this as they moved from farm to farm to follow the seasonal work. Once the government started seeing an economic crisis, Mexican Americans were first to be targeted. Our president, Herbert Hoover raided public and private places from California, Texas, Colorado, Illinois, and Michigan. The purpose was to target Hispanic populations. As a result now we see the “Hoovervilles”, which are abandoned homes. Most of the families had to split up, Men when in search for better jobs and left their kids alone. The overall jobless rate was 25% (1 out of 4 people) with another 25% taking wage cuts or working part time. The families that didn’t result into splitting up traveled west on Route 66 to California. When being deported back to Mexico most families can’t find new jobs because they too are facing the depression. It’s become difficult for them to have to start all over again.
I believe that the Hoover should have invested more in jobs for these Mexican-Americans instead of sending them away thinking that it would solve the problem. I believe its completely unfair to send citizens back to their ancient decent.