During the 1930s, it is estimated that upwards of 600,000 American citizens who happened to be of Mexican descent were deported from the United States under a cultural repatriation campaign conceived by President Hoover. Is President Trump destined to repeat one of the most horrendous acts of US policy? On April 13, following a sit-down […]
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Trump tariff announcement echoes 1930s US trade policy
The most bizarre part of U.S. president Donald Trump’s April 2 ‘Liberation Day’ speech was when he claimed that the Great Depression, which endured from 1929 until the beginning of the Second World War, would not have happened if the American government had retained tariffs on imported goods, and not introduced an income tax. What? […]