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Deportations That Built America | Venice Beach News
A haunting new exhibition in Sacramento, “Help Wanted/Leave Now,” reveals a century of U.S. deportation campaigns against Mexican workers—guided by labor legend Dolores Huerta. Through personal stories and photos, it exposes the human toll: family separations, civil rights abuses, and the cruel irony of recruiting essential farm and railroad workers only to expel them later. From “Operation Wetback” to the bracero program, Huerta connects past injustices to today’s detention crises, reminding us that these workers built this nation—and are still treated as criminals despite their vital…
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