Reply #1: It wasn't just illegals and immigrants that were being kicked out of

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California during the depression. My uncles and grandmother got sent back to Oklahoma after trying to get jobs picking fruit in California. Just like in the Grapes of Wrath, my uncles and grandmother (my father was too young to work and was with his grandmother) were forced to return to the dust bowl in Oklahoma after applying for jobs to pick fruit. They had to return to their farm in Oklahoma that was nothing but a big field of dust.

It was called the Great Depression for a reason. There was no work. People became very protective of the few jobs available.