Sen. Gonzalez and Sen. Becker call for State Commemoration of the Mexican Repatriation of the 1930s

Senate Majority Leader Lena Gonzalez (Vice Chair of the Latino California Legislative Caucus) and Senator Josh Becker are leading a pivotal effort to secure justice and recognition for a dark chapter in American history. They will hold a press conference on August 14 to discuss SB 537, which calls for a state commemoration in the form of a statue or other appropriate memorialization of the Mexican Repatriation of the 1930s—a period of forced deportations and injustices that devastated hundreds of thousands of Mexican and Mexican-American families and left a lasting scar on the community that continues to this day.