Question

why was the Americanization movement aimed at both immigrants and Indians?

Answer 1

The Great Depression of the 1930s hit Mexican immigrants the most . Job crisis and food shortages affected the entire society. As unemployment swept the U.S., hostility to immigrant workers grew, and the government intiated a program of repatriating immigrants to Mexico.

Immigrants were offered free train rides to Mexico, and some went voluntarily, but many were either tricked or coerced into repatriation, and some U.S. citizens were deported simply on suspicion of being Mexican.

Hundreds of thousands of Mexican immigrants were sent out of the country during the 1930s--many of them the same workers who had been eagerly recruited a decade before