They Came to ToilAs the Great Depression gripped the United States in the early 1930s, the Hoover administration sought to preserve jobs for Anglo Americans by targeting Mexicans, including long time residents and even US citizens, for deportation. Mexicans comprised more than 46 percent of all people deported between 1930 and 1939, despite being only 1 percent of the US population. In all, about half a million people of Mexican descent were deported to Mexico, a