Banished CitizensA moving portrait of a grim period in American immigration history, when approximately one million ethnic Mexicansmostly women and children who were US citizenswere forced to relocate across the southern border. From 1921 to 1944, approximately one million ethnic Mexicans living in the United States were removed across the border to Mexico. What officials called "repatriation" was in fact banishment: 60 percent of those expelled were US citizens,