California Government Code

§ 8721

GOV § 8721 Effective Jan 1, 2006Div. 1 · Title 2 · Ch. 8.5

Statute text

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a)Beginning in 1929, government authorities and certain private sector entities in California and throughout the United States undertook an aggressive program to forcibly remove persons of Mexican ancestry from the United States.

(b)In California alone, approximately 400,000 American citizens and legal residents of Mexican ancestry were forced to go to Mexico.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 663, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2006.